pregentrified

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ gentrified.

Adjective

pregentrified (not comparable)

1. Prior to gentrification.
   • 2007 April 29, Mireya Navarro, “A Lost New York as Seen From Way Out West”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     So at times does the portrait’s artist, Justin Bua, whose characters are from a world far away in place and time: the pregentrified streets of the Upper West Side of Manhattan in the 1970s and ’80s.