skeletons
noun B1- Shameful secrets (pluralia tantum; shortened from skeletons in the cupboard or skeletons in the closet).
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And there’s a headless man stalks up and down the path and skeletons glower at you between the boughs.
Mary noticed, for example, that certain stones often found inside ichthyosaur skeletons contained fish bones and scales when broken open, and concluded that they were fossilized droppings.
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