avant la lettre

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英文释义

介词短语
  1. Before the term was coined (the term being a word or phrase used just previously in an anachronistic way) idiomatic
    — Suffragettes were feminists avant la lettre.

词源

Borrowed from French avant la lettre (literally “before the letter”).
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