Noun
A skeletal state or condition.
Usage- Rare
- Uncountable
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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.
Turncoats of all summers' pageantry and fervors — harlots passaging to skeletonry!