Perigordianadj.n.

1766 A. Bower Hist. Popes VI. 129 These Heretics..were afterwards known by the Names of Cathari, Patarini.., the Perigordian Heretics, the Poor of Lyons, and lastly the Albigenses.

1853 G. Potts tr. L. Bungener Preacher & King i. 28 He was, however, neither so Périgordian a nobleman, nor so stoical a philosopher, as to take no interest in the news of a court which gave tone to all Europe.

1895 W. Robson tr. A. Dumas Three Musketeers (1901) I. ii. 17 A fund of courage, shrewdness, and intelligence, that makes the poorest Gascon..derive more in hope from the paternal inheritance than the richest Perigordian or Berrichan nobleman actually derives from his.

1902 Amer. Anthropologist 4 770/1 The art-remains..resemble more the type of the Pyrenean than of the Perigordian grottos.

1983 Manch. Guardian Weekly (Nexis) 24 July 13 His ‘Histoire d'Adrien’ (1960), a Perigordian chronicle where the dialogue is in dialect.

2003 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 16 Mar. 8 The roast breast of duck that adorns most Perigordian menus.

1936 Man 36 178/1 Recent discoveries in the Near East establish the distinction between blunt-backed (Perigordian) and steep rostrate (Aurignacian) scrapers.

1956 H. Read Art of Sculpt. ii. 34 There can be little doubt that the so-called Venus of Laussel attributed by the Abbé Breuil to the Périgordian period, is such a cult object.

1970 W. Bray & D. Trump Dict. Archaeol. 174/2 No known site has a complete and unbroken ‘Périgordian’ sequence.

1992 Cambr. Encycl. Human Evol. (1994) ix. v. 356/1 It was replaced by another tradition—the Gravettian (known as the Périgordian in France).

1936 Amer. Anthropologist 38 446 (note) Two instances have, however, been recorded where Aurignacians (Perigordians) used the graver to remove longitudinal cuttings from reindeer antlers.

1966 Amer. Anthropologist 68 321 The use made of these stones by the Late Aurignacian settlers..was different from that to which they were put by the Upper Périgordians.

1996 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 22 Nov. 10 The book The French Paradox, which showed that the wine-drinking, fatty-food eating Perigordians lived long, healthy lives.

1938 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 4 4 Peyrony..has found at Laugerie Haute an industry of blunted-back blades... He concludes that in the Chatelperron–Laugerie Haute–La Gravette succession we are dealing with a culture totally different from the so-called Middle Aurignacian,..and he proposes to group all those industries characterised by the blunted-back blade under the title of Perigordian.

1963 Current Anthropol. 4 68/2 (note) There is no general agreement that the Solurean was formed from the Perigordian (Gravettian) and the Mousterian.

1977 D. K. Bhattacharya Palaeolithic Europe iv. 168 In 1933, Dr. Peyrony declared that what was earlier thought to be lower and upper Aurignacian, is in reality a tradition different from Aurignacian and he named this Perigordian.

1994 Ann. Rev. Anthropol. 23 493 The stable settlements of the late Perigordian were supported by the high concentration of medium-sized game (deer) in the Vezere Valley.