Obs. Also 5 critone. [a. OF. cretonné: see Godefroy.] A kind of seasoned soup or pottage in which rabbits, fowls, etc., were boiled.
a. 1400[?]. Morte Arth., 197. Connygez in cretoyne.
c. 1420. Liber Cocorum (1862), 8. Chekyns in cretone [printed -ene].
c. 1440. Anc. Cookery, in Househ. Ord. (1790), 431. Critone to Potage.
