Sentence:  This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking....Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a <WSD>day</WSD> when skin garments made the proper garb of men. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time.