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Definition of crone in English: cronenoun krəʊnkroʊn An ugly old woman. Example sentencesExamples - I imagined a withered old crone with faerie wings dull and tattered with age.
- Candle clutching crones, eyes and teeth flashing, pray to the locked white-washed church, to ask Bon Dieu Bon (God oversees all the voodoo spirits as he does the Catholic saints) to bless their services.
- One of the women, a wrinkled crone, smiled, her thin lips pulling back to reveal yellow teeth.
- The frigid old crone who taught us made copulation seem like the most boring thing possible.
- Consumed with vengeance, the Queen brews up a potion that transforms her into a gnarled old crone.
- For Riley, Three Tall Women lends itself to the archetypes of the maiden, the mother and the crone, what she refers to as the tri-goddess.
- You left Trudy alone when she could've used your knowledge the most, you shriveled crone.
- Thalia had no idea what this old crone was talking about, and figured she was probably mumbling something irrelevant to herself.
- Sophie is transformed into an old woman by the spell of a crone called The Witch of the Waste.
- One day, he would give that prehistoric crone what was coming to her, but not today.
- Actress Patricia Doyle, the narrator, plays her as an embittered crone looking back on her wicked life.
- This was absolutely the last time he did that old crone's bidding, he didn't care how close of a friend she was.
- For several minutes I ignored that crone, hoping that she would go away or that someone else would see her and do the gentlemanly thing; fat chance.
- First, in her challenging study The Boy, our chief feminist guru Germaine Greer pronounces that it's all right for us crones to drool over the beauty of young men.
- Not one child laughed, no infant wailed, no hawker or crone haggled for staring.
- If we made a habit of yielding to prejudice we would restore capital punishment, stone people to death and drown old crones in pointed hats.
- Do not pass Go or collect 100 francs, go directly to the Bastille, where you will be decapitated by an angry mob of toothless old crones.
- Withered crones filled every seat, wrapped in thick black woolen coats, huddled forwards like emperor penguins defending their young.
- Originally, witches were nasty old crones who made evil potions.
- He is not the ideal spokesman to challenge a double standard that celebrates older fathers as randy old goats, but shudders at older mothers as unnatural crones.
- She turned to the old chuckling crone, snarling all the way.
- While the majority jostle for a bit more elbow room under their comfy security blanket of togetherness, I find myself left out in the cold with all the other disagreeable old crones.
- She crawled outside to spot a lone figure speeding away - something bent like an aged crone, smoky hair streaming out behind it as it loped with unnatural speed.
- Indeed, the main issue with this is the lack of sympathy we have for the main character, old crone Hetty March.
- What's the difference between a crone, witch and hag again?
- It would have seemed strange to onlookers for some old crone to have suddenly laughed at nothing at all.
- Once three graces, now three crones, the old women preside over their table and their kingdom of life.
- Witches were no longer young and seductive, but old crones, who symbolised the bad mothers of nightmare.
- Oanss, Ann thought, would still be in his prime when she was a dying, bitter old crone in a wheelchair.
- The crowd whooped again, and I looked around expecting to see old crones knitting happily as the blood flowed.
- Her appearance in The Brothers Grimm sees her play the Mirror Queen, a withered 500-year-old crone.
- It is inhabited almost exclusively by a group of old crones.
- Wiltshire sits in her dining room by a painting of a crone in Welsh costume with black stovepipe hat.
- An old crone of a woman saw me looking at the delicacies.
- The cackling crones will be unleashed when scenes from Roald Dahl's children's classic The Witches are staged at a theatrical show.
- He was in the presence of the Great Lady who was at once, an unblemished virgin, a pregnant mother and a wizened crone.
- I would not give them to that old crone, despite what she promises you in return.
- He stared pointedly at one old crone who watched him distrustfully, daring her to say something.
- I tried to sign to the cackling crone that someone was already sitting in the seat she had chosen, but she just kept looking at me and laughing.
- Darting around the room with unusual energy for her age was a wizened old crone.
Origin Late Middle English: via Middle Dutch croonje, caroonje 'carcass, old ewe' from Old Northern French caroigne 'carrion, cantankerous woman' (see carrion). crockery from early 18th century: Crockery is from obsolete crocker ‘potter’, from crock, spelt in Old English croc, crocca ‘earthenware pot’. The crock in the expression old crock is a different word, perhaps of Flemish origin. Originally a late Middle English Scots term for an old ewe, it came in the late 19th century to denote an old or broken-down horse. Crone (Late Middle English) has a related history coming from Middle Dutch croonje, ‘old ewe, carcass’ from Old Northern French caroigne meaning both ‘carrion’ and ‘cantankerous woman’. See also carnival
Rhymes alone, atone, Beaune, bemoan, blown, bone, Capone, clone, Cohn, Cologne, condone, cone, co-own, drone, enthrone, flown, foreknown, foreshown, groan, grown, half-tone, home-grown, hone, Joan, known, leone, loan, lone, mephedrone, moan, Mon, mown, ochone, outflown, outgrown, own, phone, pone, prone, Rhône, roan, rone, sewn, shown, Simone, Sloane, Soane, sone, sown, stone, strown, throne, thrown, tone, trombone, Tyrone, unbeknown, undersown, windblown, zone Definition of crone in US English: cronenounkrōnkroʊn An old woman who is thin and ugly. Example sentencesExamples - It would have seemed strange to onlookers for some old crone to have suddenly laughed at nothing at all.
- One of the women, a wrinkled crone, smiled, her thin lips pulling back to reveal yellow teeth.
- While the majority jostle for a bit more elbow room under their comfy security blanket of togetherness, I find myself left out in the cold with all the other disagreeable old crones.
- One day, he would give that prehistoric crone what was coming to her, but not today.
- Actress Patricia Doyle, the narrator, plays her as an embittered crone looking back on her wicked life.
- If we made a habit of yielding to prejudice we would restore capital punishment, stone people to death and drown old crones in pointed hats.
- Thalia had no idea what this old crone was talking about, and figured she was probably mumbling something irrelevant to herself.
- First, in her challenging study The Boy, our chief feminist guru Germaine Greer pronounces that it's all right for us crones to drool over the beauty of young men.
- He stared pointedly at one old crone who watched him distrustfully, daring her to say something.
- The cackling crones will be unleashed when scenes from Roald Dahl's children's classic The Witches are staged at a theatrical show.
- I imagined a withered old crone with faerie wings dull and tattered with age.
- For Riley, Three Tall Women lends itself to the archetypes of the maiden, the mother and the crone, what she refers to as the tri-goddess.
- Do not pass Go or collect 100 francs, go directly to the Bastille, where you will be decapitated by an angry mob of toothless old crones.
- He was in the presence of the Great Lady who was at once, an unblemished virgin, a pregnant mother and a wizened crone.
- Once three graces, now three crones, the old women preside over their table and their kingdom of life.
- The frigid old crone who taught us made copulation seem like the most boring thing possible.
- You left Trudy alone when she could've used your knowledge the most, you shriveled crone.
- She crawled outside to spot a lone figure speeding away - something bent like an aged crone, smoky hair streaming out behind it as it loped with unnatural speed.
- Wiltshire sits in her dining room by a painting of a crone in Welsh costume with black stovepipe hat.
- Consumed with vengeance, the Queen brews up a potion that transforms her into a gnarled old crone.
- Indeed, the main issue with this is the lack of sympathy we have for the main character, old crone Hetty March.
- Oanss, Ann thought, would still be in his prime when she was a dying, bitter old crone in a wheelchair.
- It is inhabited almost exclusively by a group of old crones.
- He is not the ideal spokesman to challenge a double standard that celebrates older fathers as randy old goats, but shudders at older mothers as unnatural crones.
- What's the difference between a crone, witch and hag again?
- An old crone of a woman saw me looking at the delicacies.
- Not one child laughed, no infant wailed, no hawker or crone haggled for staring.
- Darting around the room with unusual energy for her age was a wizened old crone.
- For several minutes I ignored that crone, hoping that she would go away or that someone else would see her and do the gentlemanly thing; fat chance.
- I would not give them to that old crone, despite what she promises you in return.
- She turned to the old chuckling crone, snarling all the way.
- Withered crones filled every seat, wrapped in thick black woolen coats, huddled forwards like emperor penguins defending their young.
- The crowd whooped again, and I looked around expecting to see old crones knitting happily as the blood flowed.
- I tried to sign to the cackling crone that someone was already sitting in the seat she had chosen, but she just kept looking at me and laughing.
- Witches were no longer young and seductive, but old crones, who symbolised the bad mothers of nightmare.
- This was absolutely the last time he did that old crone's bidding, he didn't care how close of a friend she was.
- Sophie is transformed into an old woman by the spell of a crone called The Witch of the Waste.
- Candle clutching crones, eyes and teeth flashing, pray to the locked white-washed church, to ask Bon Dieu Bon (God oversees all the voodoo spirits as he does the Catholic saints) to bless their services.
- Her appearance in The Brothers Grimm sees her play the Mirror Queen, a withered 500-year-old crone.
- Originally, witches were nasty old crones who made evil potions.
Origin Late Middle English: via Middle Dutch croonje, caroonje ‘carcass, old ewe’ from Old Northern French caroigne ‘carrion, cantankerous woman’ (see carrion). |