Crossword clues for upholstery
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Upholstery \Up*hol"ster*y\, n. The articles or goods supplied by upholsterers; the business or work of an upholsterer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"upholsterer's work, furniture covered with textile materials, interior fittings made from textiles," 1640s; see upholster + -y (4).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The craft or business of upholstering furniture. 2 The materials so used.
WordNet
n. covering (padding and springs and webbing and fabric) on a piece of furniture
the craft of upholstering
Wikipedia
Upholstery is the work of providing furniture, especially seats, with padding, springs, webbing, and fabric or leather covers. The word upholstery comes from the Middle English word upholder, which referred to a tradesman who held up his goods. The term is equally applicable to domestic, automobile, airplane and boat furniture, and can be applied to mattresses, particularly the upper layers, though these often differ significantly in design. A person who works with upholstery is called an upholsterer; an apprentice upholsterer is sometimes called an outsider or trimmer. Traditional upholstery uses materials like coil springs (post-1850), animal hair (horse, hog and cow), coir, straw and hay, hessians, linen scrims, wadding, etc., and is done by hand, building each layer up. In contrast, modern upholsterers employ synthetic materials like dacron and vinyl, serpentine springs, and so on.
Usage examples of "upholstery".
The laboring air-recirculation systems did little to dampen the odor of decaying upholstery that continued to outgas even so many years after the scooter had been put into operation.
Chuck scooted off the upholstery and scrambled underneath his seat, where he concentrated on returning to personhood as quickly as he could.
It shimmered along the old troweled plasterwork and glistened between the tiny network of cracks on the leather upholstery.
There was more fear in this last condition of affairs, more terror in the idea of this prolonged line of sleepers, with their nickelled fittings, their plate glass, their upholstery, vestibules, and the like, loaded down with people, lost and forgotten in the night and the rain, than there had been when the actual danger threatened.
A spare parlour and bedroom I refurnished entirely, with old mahogany and crimson upholstery: I laid canvas on the passage, and carpets on the stairs.
Joanna left the garage a few minutes later, one of the jail trustees, armed with an upholstery shampooer, was already scrubbing away at the front seat.
The backs of my legs made little sucking sounds as they unglued themselves from the plastic upholstery.
Lord Unwin winks heavily at William, and digs his liver-spotted hands into the upholstery of his chair, preparing to haul himself up.
Aerosol sprays, asbestos, fiberglass, building materials of various types, dry cleaning fluids, spot removers, rug and upholstery cleaners, fabric finishes and cements, antistatic agents and fabric softeners, shoe-care products, spray starch, flame retardant, furniture and floor products, detergent soaps, lead soldered pipes, gasoline, oven cleaners, drain cleaners, bleaches, toilet bowl cleaners, window cleaners, scouring powders, plastics of various types and many more common household products may injure or kill.
The discomfort of the drive back to Asmara would be greatly reduced by the superb upholstery and suspension designed by Messrs Rolls and Royce and would be more than adequietely offset by the quasi-civilized amenities of the town.
I tried to imagine an original one with a sense of humor--interior by Andy Warhol, all the bright-green upholstery sporting cartoony dollar signs.
Jaguar XKE drophead coupe, flaming red, with red leather upholstery and wire wheels.
We climbed in and I sat on a hard wooden box, innocent of upholstery, as Piro started the engine.
As the twins stiffen and press against the upholstery in stunning diffidence she thinks, Oh shit, I forgot.
Miller leaned back on the comfortable leather upholstery of his Jaguar and lit up a Roth-Hdndl, a filterless black-tobacco cigarette with a foul smell, another thing that his mother complained about in her disappointing son.