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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reupholster

1872, from re- + upholster. Related: Reupholstered; reupholstering.

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reupholster

vb. To upholster again; to replace the attached fabric covering on furniture.

Usage examples of "reupholster".

Freed of that ugly brown paint, the mellow wood glowed with subtle tones, and the seat and tall back had been reupholstered with surprising skill and taste.

The furniture in this room was antique, very English, reupholstered in a lush red velvet.

Like a creature from Alien reupholstered by Frank Purdue, the male organ is testimony to the fact that every now and again, as with the floods in Bangladesh or the teeth of the British, God just fails to get it right.

We children were unseen furniture to be sat upon or dusted or sent for reupholstering come spring and fall, with a yearly cleansing at the beach.

She would treat it as a recipe, a long, complicated old-world recipe, or perhaps directions for reupholstering a couch.

On the mountainside, like strings of amber beads, the lamps of Sno-Cats crawled across the slopes, reupholstering the ski runs for morning.

Farrell smelled her before he saw her and scrambled out of a rumble seat he was reupholstering, trying hard to look distantly pleased.

All the commodes, bureaux, Louis Seize sofas, Chippendale tables had been restored, revarnished, reupholstered and regilded.

Like a creature from Alien reupholstered by Frank Purdue, the male organ is testimony to the fact that every now and again, as with the floods in Bangladesh or the teeth of the British, God just fails to get it right.

On the mountainside, like strings of amber beads, the lamps of Sno-Cats crawled across the slopes, reupholstering the ski runs for morning.