Bonelessness
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The state or quality of being boneless. uncountable
"1889, Pan [pseudonym of Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh], Dinnerology: Our Experiments in Diet, Chicago, New York and San Francisco: Belford, Clarke & Co., Chapter 3, p. 41, Our “fish” course would include salmon steaks, cod rissoles, oysters and other finny-cal morsels, and we prided ourselves on their bonelessness."
Example
More examples"1889, Pan [pseudonym of Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh], Dinnerology: Our Experiments in Diet, Chicago, New York and San Francisco: Belford, Clarke & Co., Chapter 3, p. 41, Our “fish” course would include salmon steaks, cod rissoles, oysters and other finny-cal morsels, and we prided ourselves on their bonelessness."
Etymology
From boneless + -ness.
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