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upholstering

n. 1 (context uncountable English) The padding, springs, webbing, and covers found on furniture 2 (context countable English) The application of upholstery to furniture. vb. (present participle of upholster English)

Usage examples of "upholstering".

Sometimes, she had as many as three jobs: upholstering furniture in a factory, then mowing lawns, then making buttons in the basement until midnight.

Painfully he eased himself back on the metal-framed bucket-seat, wondering peevishly when the Air Force was going to get round to upholstering these fiendish contraptions.

Most of the wood was covered with silk upholstering, the rest inlaid with gold, gems and ivory.

Gwaay, his face easy-smiling in repose, seemed to be less interested in the game than in the shadow play of the flickering lamps on the figured leather upholsterings of calfskin, lambskin, snakeskin, and even slave-skin and nobler human hide.