Crossword-Solution: STAGINGS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Around the open square, stagings were erected, and these were filled with an immense crowd of people attracted by the wide-spread notoriety given to this “act of faith.” Ten thousand persons camped in the adjoining fields the night before the day on which the horrible spectacle was appointed to take place.

The procession included many delightful things splendidly got up, for example, many wagons were drawn along with stagings of ships and other constructions.

Holden Chapel, which enclosed the space on the right as they went in, shed back the sun from its brick-red flank, rising unrelieved in its venerable ugliness by any touch of the festive preparations; but to their left and diagonally across from them high stagings supported tiers of seats along the equally unlovely red bulks of Hollis and of Harvard.

The subway contractors were still at work here, and the available street space was choked with their stagings and temporary footwalks.

Carriages, horsemen and pedestrians filled every avenue for a distance of five miles; and the windows and stagings were thronged with ladies eager to welcome him.