Cro-Magnard

English

Alternative forms

• Cromagnard
• Cro-magnard

Noun

Cro-Magnard (plural Cro-Magnards)

1. (dated) Cro-Magnon, the earliest known form of modern humans, Homo sapiens, to be found in Europe, dating from the late Paleolithic; a person resembling a Cro-Magnon.
   • 1927, “A Polite Lexicon of Cadet Slang,” The Howitzer, The Annual of the United States Corps of Cadets, Published by the Class of 1927, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, p. 505,^[1]

     P.C.S. . . Previous condition of servitude. How a cadet earned his living when he had to work. […] A Plebe with a twenty inch chest and the physique of a canary bird always turns out to be a stevedore, while the horny handed Cro-Magnard with the twenty-four inch biceps invariably breaks down and confesses that he was a bric-a-brac mender in civil life.

   • 1933 September, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “How the Idea and Hope of the Modern World State First Appeared”, in The Shape of Things to Come, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, 1st book (Today and Tomorrow: The Age of Frustration Dawns), page 22:

     In the briefer studies of human innovations that preceded his more important contributions to human history, Maxwell Brown has shown how for the past ten thousand years at least, since the Cro-Magnards stamped their leather robes and tents, the art of printing reappeared and disappeared again and again, […]

   • 1953, Lloyd B. Jensen, chapter 3, in Man’s Foods: Nutrition and Environments in Food Gathering Times and Food Producing Times, Champaign, Ill.: Garrard Press, page 28:

     It has been asserted that some of the Cromagnards may not have eaten much muscle meat, because there are no bones of food animals in their caves.

Adjective

Cro-Magnard (not comparable)

1. (dated) Of, relating to or resembling Cro-Magnon humans.
   • 1911, Ray Lankester, chapter 42, in Science from an Easy Chair‎^[2], New York: Macmillan, page 397:

     Human skulls of the Reindeer Age are known which present an approach to the characters of the Neander race, such as the heavy bony eyebrows. But it seems that this is accounted for by the survival of some Neander families alongside of the powerful Cromagnard men and the interbreeding of the two.

   • 1921, Carolyn Wells, Ptomaine Street: A Tale of Warble Petticoat, Philadelphia: J.P. Lippincott, Chapter 12, p. 107,^[3]

     Porgie Sproggins.

     Cave man. Brute.

     Hulking, enormous, shaggy-haired, prognathous jawed, a veritable Cro-magnard type. Bluely unshaven and scowling.

   • 1921, Louis Untermeyer, Introduction to Anna Wickham, The Contemplative Quarry; and, The Man with a Hammer, New York: Harcourt Brace, p. vii,^[4]

     Woman, as Meredith remarked, will be the last creature tamed by man. To-day, as in the time of the Cro-Magnard cave-dweller, this rebellious companion, half-animal, half-angel, crouches within his walls and remains aloof from them.