different between vanguard vs forerider

English

Earlier forms included vandgard and (a)vantgard, derived from Old French avan(t)garde (“before guard”).

vanguard (plural vanguards)

(military) The leading units at the front of an army or fleet.
Synonyms: advance guard, (obsolete) avant-garde
Antonym: rearguard
(by extension) The person(s) at the forefront of any group or movement.
Synonym: avant-garde

From fore- +? rider. Compare German Vorreiter.

forerider (plural foreriders)

Someone who rides at the front; a scout, or someone in the vanguard.
- , Book V:
  So within a whyle cam in the foreryders, that is for to say Sir Bors, Sir Bedwere, Sir Lyonell, and Sir Gawayne that was sore wounded […].

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