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Definition of Cronies
1. crony [n] - See also: crony
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cronies
Literary usage of Cronies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blood of Things: A Second Book of Free Forms by Alfred Kreymborg (1920)
"... CROWNS AND cronies VISION You have yet to attain contemplation of a person
without intervention of your own — and so, you have not beheld your own. ..."
2. The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia by John Mactaggart (1876)
"Where the hule was invented, this light o' lair, " Whilk now to see shining,
makes me ay sair, " It has frighten'd my cronies awa for ever mair, ..."
3. Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose by Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews (1910)
"I have been laughing, I have been carousing, Drinking late, sitting late, with
my bosom cronies— All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. ..."
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