crone: [14] Crone has a rather macabre history. Essentially it is the same word as carrion. It began life in Latin carō ‘flesh’, which had a Vulgar Latin derivative *carōnia ‘carcass’. In Old Northern French this became carogne, which was applied metaphorically to a withered old woman (English carrion comes from the Anglo-Norman form caroine). Middle Dutch borrowed the word as croonje, applying it additionally to old ewes, and passed it on to English. => carrion
crone (n.)
late 14c., from Anglo-French carogne, from Old North French carogne, term of abuse for a cantankerous or withered woman, literally "carrion," from Vulgar Latin *caronia (see carrion).
中文解释
crone 枯容（面容枯槁） = 皱皮老太婆。
实用例句
1. It was said jokingly almost, in her grim, Italian, old crone fashion.
说这些话时也差不多像是开玩笑, 是以她那独特的严峻的意大利型老大婆的方式在开玩笑.来自教父部分
2. The old crone gabbed all day.
这老太婆整天喋喋不休.来自辞典例句
3. Even if he is a youth of twenty he moves like an ancient crone.
他即使是二十岁的青年,行动起来也象个干瘪的老太婆.来自辞典例句
4. This crone will not be hushed up any longer.
这一罪行再也隐瞒不住了.来自互联网
5. You are the Crone; Queen of the world of spirits.
