Where does “avangarda” come from?

avangarda (Serbo-Croatian) comes from French avant-garde, from Old French avantgarde.

Ancestry of “avangarda”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	French	avant-garde	vanguard; avant-garde, firing line
2	Old French	avantgarde	—

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