From the hips down, she is merely an armature meant to be covered in fabric.
This dome is an armature of artistically wrought steel approximately fifteen thousand feet in diameter.
Perhaps everything has an armature, thought being built around a kind of wire in the mind.
Long tongues of brocade sheathed an armature shaped like the dome of St. Peter's.
A sculpture needs an armature the way a body needs its skeleton.
It comprised a gear-type arrangement of rack bar and pinion that operated an armature to generate electricity.
Each ball gown is a pearly cascade of satin or taffeta, undergirded by an armature of bone, padding, or tulle.
But this discovery plot only provides an armature to lend underlying shape to an otherwise entirely supple work of art.
He was indeed green, a head modeled of clay atop an armature wrapped in black friction tape.
The urban scenes are equally sketchy but solidly composed, using the implicit structure of buildings as an armature.
Architecture, accordingly, is not just a decorative skin to be draped over an armature devised by developers and space planners.
