arrière-garde

[a-ryer-gard]

noun

French.

1. rear guard.

2. a group that is behind or out-of-date in any field, especially in one of the arts.

Example Sentences

He refers to a “lynch mob” of critics “in all their arrière-garde inhumanity” and recalls a “thug in the Guardian” who reviewed the Tate show with “venom”.

From The Guardian

L'avant garde et l'arriere-garde seront employées à former les deux ailes.

From Project Gutenberg

A French writer expatiating in true Gallic style, calls Morocco the "arrière-garde en Afrique of Islamism," and "une de ses armées de réserve."

From Project Gutenberg