avant-pied, n.m., (—-—s) vamp, upper-leather of a boot.
☉avant-plancher, n.m., (—-—s) false-ceiling.
avant-poignet, n.m., (—-—s) fore-wrist.
avant-port, n.m., (—-—s) (nav.) outer harbor, tide-dock.
avant-portail, n.m., (—-—s) fore-portal.
avant-poste, n.m., (—-—s) (milit.) out-post.
avant-propos, n.m., (—) preface, preamble; introduction, exordium.
avant-quart, n.m., (—-—s) (horl.) warning-bell.
avant-scène, n.f., (—-—s) front of the stage; proscenium, stage-box.
avant-toit, n.m., (—-—s) fore-roof, projecting roof, eaves.