BAREBONED

PRONUNCIATION: (BAYR-bohnd)

MEANING: adjective: Lean; spare; gaunt.

ETYMOLOGY: From bare-bone (a lean person), from Old English baer (bare) + ban (bone). Earliest documented use: 1600.
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BAR-EBONY - black keys on a honky-tonk piano

BAREBOND - a financial instrument stripped of interest

BLAREBONED - the brass section of "Rex Tremendae" in the Verdi Requiem

BARRE-BONED - a body well trained for classical ballet