Definitions
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- noun extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)
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Examples
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It was the absence of these contours that made Mark think his face so ecclesiastical; however, if at eighteen he had possessed contours and soft curves, they would have been nothing but the contours and soft curves of that rose, youth; and this ecclesiastical bonyness would not fade and fall as swiftly as that.
The Altar Steps Compton MacKenzie 1927
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