crone

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But whenever he appeared the crone was there.

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  1. noun An ugly, withered old woman; a hag.

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  • "I've spent too long and too much effort preparin 'for the role of an aged crone, and I'm not about to give up on it now," she told him. —  Orphan Star
  • Which meant the crone was an excellent judge of character; that man was definitely dangerous Luck, he'd often noticed, visited in multiples. —  Stephanie Laurens - A Fine Passion
  • But whenever he appeared the crone was there One morning however, Foresto had time to whisper The Arabian What did that mean? —  O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
  • But whenever he appeared the crone was there. —  O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
  • One day, during his father's last illness, he happened to pass the door of the grandmother's hovel while the crone was administering to —  A Rough Shaking
 

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  1. 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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  1. Early modern English also croane, from Middle English crone, an old woman; cf. Old Dutch kronie, an old ewe. Origin unknown; hardly, as some suggest, from Irish crion, dry, withered, old, sage, = Gaelic crion, dry, withered, mean, etc.; Irish crionaim, I wither, = Gaelic crion, wither, = Welsh crinio, wither. See crony.
 

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