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Definition of crone noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

crone

noun
 
/krəʊn/
 
/krəʊn/
(literary)
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  1. an offensive word for an old woman
    Word Originlate Middle English: via Middle Dutch croonje, caroonje ‘carcass, old ewe’ from Old Northern French caroigne ‘carrion, cantankerous woman’, Old French charoigne, based on Latin caro ‘flesh’.
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