Meanings
nounskeletonry (uncountable)
- rareuncountableA skeletal state or condition.
Turncoats of all summers' pageantry and fervors — harlots passaging to skeletonry!
Lee Ver Duft, "Nocturne", in 1954, Eunice Meers (ed.), Lyrical Iowa (page 26)1 more example
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 [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados
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skeletonry. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skeletonry
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