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crone

  [krohn]
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–noun
a withered, witchlike old woman.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME < MD croonie old ewe < ONF caronie carrion

Related forms:
cronish, adjective
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crone   (krōn)   
n.  An ugly, withered old woman; a hag.

[Middle English, from Old North French carogne, carrion, cantankerous woman, from Vulgar Latin *carōnia, carrion, from Latin carō, carn-, flesh; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots.]
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crone 
c.1386, from Anglo-Fr. carogne, from O.N.Fr., term of abuse for a cantankerous or withered woman, lit. "carrion," from V.L. *caronia.
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