Brewer's: Scaffold, Scaffolding

A temporary gallery for workmen. In its secondary sense it means the postulates and rough scheme of a system or sustained story. (French, échafaud, échafaudage.) (See Cinter.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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