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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[See

Dead body; carrion.

[Obs.]

Chaucer.

caroigne

(obsolete) Dead body; carrion.
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- The kirke shal haue my caroigne and kepe my bones. — Piers Plowman.

Vulgar Latin *cariona, from carō, carnis ‎(“flesh”).

caroigne f ‎(oblique plural caroignes, nominative singular caroigne, nominative plural caroignes)

“charogne” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).