cro-magnard

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, 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.

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, […]

Of, relating to or resembling Cro-Magnon humans.

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, Porgie Sproggins. Cave man. Brute. Hulking, enormous, shaggy-haired, prognathous jawed, a veritable Cro-magnard type. Bluely unshaven and scowling.