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bonehouses

bonehouses is the plural of bonehouse.

Meaning of bonehouse

Noun (1)

bonehouse (plural bonehouses)

  1. (poetic) A body.
    • […] beyond whatever - a comfort to consider those bones - Or run my hand over elastic frail ribcage, the woman I love, her pulse of desire. What store of affection inside the bonehouse? Tilt of the chin, and how her denim skirt falls to her shoes.1998, Gary Gach, What Book!?: Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop
  2. (poetic) A corpse.
    • […] but the poet, having moved through a landscape that is defined by images of barrenness and desolation — trees "lorn of all delicious apple," an empty house given over to "dust that filmed the deadened air," "the bonehouse of a rabbit," […]1990, Peter Stitt, Frank Graziano, James Wright: The Heart of the Light

Noun (2)

bonehouse (plural bonehouses)

  1. A building for holding the remains of the dead.
    Synonyms:
    ossuary

Questions about bonehouses

What is bonehouses the plural of?
Bonehouses is the plural of bonehouse.

Words near bonehouses in the dictionary

  1. boneheadedly
  2. boneheadedness
  3. boneheads
  4. Bonehill
  5. bonehouse
  6. bonehouses
  7. bonejarring
  8. bonejarringly
  9. boneless
  10. boneless lean beef trimmings
  11. bonelessly

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