Upholsterer
[ʌp'holstərɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who provides hangings, coverings, cushions, curtains, and the like; one who upholsters.
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Examples
- Mr. Boythorn leaving us within a week, we took up our abode at a cheerful lodging near Oxford Street over an upholsterer's shop. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- With his upholsterer manner, as if the trooper were a window to be fitted up, he takes from his pocket a pair of handcuffs. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- These are the thanks he gets for trudging about three mortal weeks from house-painter to upholsterer, from cabinet-maker to charwoman. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I hope the upholsterer may do the same. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- We found Sophia established in a nice house in Montagu Square, which Lord Berwick, or rather his upholsterer, had furnished with much taste. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Upholsterers frequently let furniture by the month or by the year. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But if the expense of this entertainment had been employed in setting to work masons, carpenters, upholsterers, mechanics, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The finer quality of bristles goes to the brushmakers, and the balance is used by upholsterers for mixing with horse hair. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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