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skeletonry

skeletonry noun: a skeletal state or condition.

Noun

skeletonry (uncountable)

  1. (rare) A skeletal state or condition.
    • On the land, the gates and hedges had been broken and unkempt; the buildings, as they passed through the farmyard, were empty and showed here and there a skeletonry of bare rafters to the sky.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados
    • Turncoats of all summers' pageantry
      and fervors — harlots passaging to skeletonry!Lee Ver Duft, "Nocturne", in 1954, Eunice Meers (ed.), Lyrical Iowa (page 26)

Origin of skeletonry

skeleton + -ry

Questions about skeletonry

What does skeletonry mean?
Skeletonry means a skeletal state or condition.
What part of speech is skeletonry?
Skeletonry is a noun.

Words near skeletonry in the dictionary

  1. skeletonizers
  2. skeletonizes
  3. skeletonizing
  4. skeletonless
  5. skeletonlike
  6. skeletonry
  7. skeletons
  8. skeletons in one's closet
  9. skeletons in one's closets
  10. skeletons in one's house
  11. skeletons in the closet

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