caruine

Old French

Noun

caruine f (oblique plural caruines, nominative singular caruine, nominative plural caruines)

  1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of charogne
    • c. 1120, Philippe de Taon, Bestiaire, line 1352:
      E de honeste pulture; de caruine n'ad cure;
      And of honest foot; of carrion, it [the coot] has no desire
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