"scaffoldy" meaning in English

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          "text": "\"The result has rather a scaffoldy and incomplete appearance, which would be happily remedied by the coloring brush and a few shadings, easily thrown in, but the measurements are correct, and the proportions and the relations of the several of the several buildings to one another, are accurately represented.\"",
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        "Of a building or a wall: covered in or looking like a scaffold."
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        "(informal) Of a building or a wall: covered in or looking like a scaffold."
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          "text": "Evan pushed the twist of hair off his forehead and regarded the shadow. It was long and straight and lean and scaffoldy, like a cross on a spire."
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        "(informal, figurative) Resembling a scaffold."
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        "(informal) Of a building or a wall: covered in or looking like a scaffold."
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