crone

Definitions


[krəʊn], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a wrinkled or stooped old woman
(e.g: a wicked witch casts a spell on the young heroine that turns her into a wrinkled old crone)


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Origin:
late Middle English: via Middle Dutch croonje, caroonje ‘carcass, old ewe’ from Old Northern French caroigne ‘carrion, cantankerous woman’ (see carrion)




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