Obs. An early form of CROWN, frequent in 14–15th c., but obs. by 1500. In the following, app. a new formation from L. corona: see CORONA 1–3, 8.
1569. J. Sa[nford], trans. Agrippa’s Van. Artes, 70. A certaine continuall circle of light, which they call Stephanen, that is to saie, a Corone.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, 73. His floures do grow like crownes or garlandes rounde about the stalke…. The seede doth grow in the smal corones from whence the floures fell of.
