Scaffolding

Full definition of scaffolding

Noun

1. A temporary modular system of tubes forming a framework used to support people and material in the construction or repair of buildings and other large structures.
• 2007, December 21, The New York Times, Museum and Gallery Listings, They resemble ...
  transparent scaffoldings partially draped with often hallucinatory nets of lines, gouges, hatching and cross-hatching that somehow also depict varying degrees of flesh, features and expression.

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