of, relating to, or characteristic of an Upper Palaeolithic culture in Europe, esp in France
noun
2. the Perigordian
Word origin
C20: after Périgord, district in France
Perigordian in American English
(ˌperɪˈɡɔrdiən)
adjective
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an Upper Paleolithic cultural epoch in southern France, esp. of the Périgord region
Word origin
[1935–40; Pᴇ́rigord + -ian]This word is first recorded in the period 1935–40. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: aeroembolism, blitz, fluorocarbon, hard core, prime mover-ian is a suffix occurring originally in adjectives borrowed from Latin, formed from nounsdenoting places (Italian) or persons (Flavian), and now productively forming English adjectives by extension of the Latin pattern.Attached to geographical names, it denotes provenance or membership (Washingtonian), the latter sense now extended to membership in social classes, religious denominations,etc. (Episcopalian; pedestrian). Attached to personal names, it has the additional senses “contemporary with” ( Victorian) or “proponent of” (Hegelian; Freudian) the person specified by the noun base. It also occurs in a set of personal nouns,mainly loanwords from French, denoting one who engages in, practices, or works withthe referent of the base noun (comedian; grammarian; theologian)