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UPHOLSTER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does upholster mean?
• UPHOLSTER (verb)
The verb UPHOLSTER has 1 sense:
1. provide furniture with padding, springs, webbing, and covers
Familiarity information: UPHOLSTER used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: upholstered
Past participle: upholstered
-ing form: upholstering
Sense 1
Meaning:
Provide furniture with padding, springs, webbing, and covers
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "upholster" is one way to...):
furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)
Domain category:
cabinetry; cabinetwork (the craft of making furniture (especially furniture of high quality))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
upholsterer (a craftsman who upholsters furniture)
upholstery (the craft of upholstering)
upholstery (covering (padding and springs and webbing and fabric) on a piece of furniture)
Context examples
It is a picture, and I can see it now,—the jagged edges of the hole in the side of the cabin, through which the grey fog swirled and eddied; the empty upholstered seats, littered with all the evidences of sudden flight, such as packages, hand satchels, umbrellas, and wraps; the stout gentleman who had been reading my essay, encased in cork and canvas, the magazine still in his hand, and asking me with monotonous insistence if I thought there was any danger; the red-faced man, stumping gallantly around on his artificial legs and buckling life-preservers on all comers; and finally, the screaming bedlam of women.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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