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Seven Days, Seven Covers: Day Five: 2025
Mar. 19th, 2025 11:19 am
Mar. 19th, 2025
Word: Perigordian
Mar. 19th, 2025 11:24 amWednesday's word is...
...Perigordian.
[per-i-gawr-dee-uhn]
adjective
1. of or belonging to a Paleolithic culture epoch of western Europe including the Châterperronian and Gravettian phases and characterized by narrow pointed flint knife blades and the art of Lascaux Cave
origin
PĂ©rigord, region in southwestern France + English -ian
I found it in Cabaret Macabre by Tom Mead:
It had a tranquility that would melt away with the rising sun, and the landscape a Perigordian primitiveness.
...Perigordian.
[per-i-gawr-dee-uhn]
adjective
1. of or belonging to a Paleolithic culture epoch of western Europe including the Châterperronian and Gravettian phases and characterized by narrow pointed flint knife blades and the art of Lascaux Cave
origin
PĂ©rigord, region in southwestern France + English -ian
I found it in Cabaret Macabre by Tom Mead:
It had a tranquility that would melt away with the rising sun, and the landscape a Perigordian primitiveness.