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Historic period

noun

An era of history having some distinctive feature. Synonym: age.

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"Historic period" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the other) lose consistency and credibility when they deal with history before 1000 B.C. Moreover, Prof. Myres has covered the prehistoric period in the East in his brilliant Dawn of History. Therefore, on all accounts, in treating of the historic period, I am absolved from looking back more than a ...

— The Ancient East • D. G. Hogarth

... gossip, that he had a "secret sorrow," for, though he was pleasant enough, he kept very much to himself. The cause of his retirement from aviation was the theme of many romantic legends. They did not know precisely what it was he had done in the pre-historic period of a year before, but they treated him with reverence instead of the amused aloofness with which an office usually waits to see whether a new man will prove to be a fool or a "grouch," a clown or a good ...

— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis

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