Upholster
[ʌp'həʊlstə;-'hɒl-] or [ʌp'holstɚ]
Definition
(verb.) provide furniture with padding, springs, webbing, and covers.
Typist: Ursula--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To furnish (rooms, carriages, bedsteads, chairs, etc.) with hangings, coverings, cushions, etc.; to adorn with furnishings in cloth, velvet, silk, etc.; as, to upholster a couch; to upholster a room with curtains.
(n.) A broker.
(n.) An upholsterer.
Inputed by Jon
Examples
- How many departed monks were required to upholster these six parlors? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The frame is stoutly constructed, and the face thickly upholstered with scrap leather and a heavy but pliable covering. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Smith happened to have an extra horse at Bruinsburg which I borrowed, with a saddle-tree without upholstering further than stirrups. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The body department occupies the greatest amount of space, requiring, with the upholstering department, most of the three upper floors. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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