Crossword clues for upholsterer
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 upholsters.
Upholsterer bee. (Zo["o]l.) See Poppy bee, under Poppy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"tradesman who finishes or repairs articles of furniture" (1610s), from upholdester (early 15c.; early 14c. as a surname), formed with diminutive (originally fem.) suffix -ster + obsolete Middle English noun upholder "dealer in small goods" (c.1300), from upholden "to repair, uphold, keep from falling or sinking" (in this case, by stuffing); see uphold (v.).
Wiktionary
n. A craftsman who upholsters furniture.
WordNet
n. a craftsman who upholsters furniture
Usage examples of "upholsterer".
His father was a clothworker - a member of one of the educated, urban trades which, along with printers, bookbinders and booksellers, upholsterers, pewterers, barbers and cooks, provided the seed-bed in which early Protestantism grew in England, as in the rest of Europe.
Erard, the son of a Strasbourg upholsterer, went to Paris, a poor orphan of sixteen, in the year 1768, and, finding employment in the establishment of a harpsichord-maker, rose rapidly to the foremanship of the shop, and was soon in business for himself as a maker of harpsichords, harps, and pianos.
Once the frames arrived by the container in California and were shipped east, our refinishers and upholsterers in Pennsylvania completed the work.
I keep meaning to have the damn thing sent to the upholsterers, but I always forget.
And now he found it once more superb and cheerful, renovated with healthier and more substantial luxury by Ambroise, who had put masons and joiners and upholsterers into it for a period of three months.
For it was not only his upholsterer that he owed, but also his tailor, his bootmaker, his coal-dealer, his concierge, and all those with whom he had dealings.
At Paris,[35] Marat in three successive numbers of his paper has just denounced by name "the rascals and thieves" who canvass for electoral nominations, not the nobles and priests but ordinary citizens, lawyers, architects, physicians, jewellers, stationers, printers, upholsterers and other artisans, each name being given in full with the professions, addresses and one of the following qualifications, "hypocrite (tartufe), immoral, dishonest, bankrupt, informer, usurer, cheat," not to mention others that I cannot write down.
How many others are walking the streets, such as upholsterers, lace-makers, embroiderers, fan makers, gilders, carnage-makers, binders, engravers, and all the other producers of Parisian nick-nacks!
Now a full third had been converted to small businesses: an upholsterer, an auto repair shop, and a beauty salon.