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upholster
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Word definitions for upholster in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. To fit padding, stuffing, springs, webbing and fabric covering to furniture.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. provide furniture with padding, springs, webbing, and covers
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1853, back-formation from upholsterer . Related: Upholstered ; upholstering .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Upholsterer \Up*hol"ster*er\, n. [A substitution for older upholder, in OE., broker, tradesman, and formerly also written upholster , upholdster . See Upholder , and -ster .] One who provides hangings, coverings, cushions, curtains, and the like; one who ...
Usage examples of upholster.
One of my favorite pictures shows Soliman in his nifty palace at Constantinople, reclining not unvoluptuously upon a sinfully upholstered sofa with his whiskers, his chibouk and his memories, about to receive a cup of his special brew from a damsel who may be a Nubian slave, but who looks suspiciously like a houri.
Covertly opening that eye which remained in the heavy shadow, separating the lashes by little more than the width of a hair, he could make out a large room, upholstered and carpeted in green, with green-shaded electroliers above two billiard tables that stood ghastly and bier-like beneath their blanketing covers of white cotton.
Coal-oil lamps in gimbals cast a warm light on the dark wood fittings and on the leather upholstered chairs.
She and Anne settled down into lumpily uncomfortable lounge chairs upholstered in dusty brocade.
It was almost claustrophobic, with its low, dark gray, oval corridor, slatted walls and melamine desks, and rows of bright green upholstered seats.
Tanner and Styler on a small settee, and Androv took a large upholstered armchair, his back to the windows.
Fausta was reclining on a couch upholstered in crimson brocade which clashed with the purple tunica she wore.
At the time of his greatest prosperity, for instance, having need of a carriage, he had applied to the manager of the Petites Voitures Company, and had had built for himself two cabs, outwardly similar in every respect to those used by the company, but within, most luxuriously upholstered, and drawn by horses of common appearance, but who could go their twenty-five miles in two hours any day.
White lace doilies lay like winter snowflakes on all the arms of the furniture, and linen antimacassars anachronistically protected the upholstered backs from men who no longer slicked their hair with Macassar oil.
Lord Brill, still in the blue velvet jacket and trousers, rose from a carved wooden chair, upholstered in a blue needlepoint.
Goth glamour, and was wearing enough leather to upholster a small chair: skirt, bustier, her leather jacket, boots, and cap.
She was curled up on a long low divan upholstered in a pale blue panne velvet.
The long low room was refurnished from the Abbey sale, with chairs upholstered in claret-coloured rep, many years old, and an oval table of polished walnut, and another piano, handsome, though still antique.
He rushed time, anxious to please his boss, afraid that he would lose his upholstering job.
Something of the sense of the impending, that comes over the spectator of a Greek tragedy, had entered that upholstered room, filled with those white-haired, frockcoated old men, and fashionably attired women, who were all of the same blood, between all of whom existed an unseizable resemblance.