crone
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But whenever he appeared the crone was there.
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- 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
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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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- 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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/ (krōn)/
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