UPHOLSTERER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does upholsterer mean? 

• UPHOLSTERER (noun)
  The noun UPHOLSTERER has 1 sense:

1. a craftsman who upholsters furniture

  Familiarity information: UPHOLSTERER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UPHOLSTERER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A craftsman who upholsters furniture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("upholsterer" is a kind of...):

artificer; artisan; craftsman; journeyman (a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft)

Derivation:

upholster (provide furniture with padding, springs, webbing, and covers)

 Context examples 

The board, that made the ceiling, was to be lifted up and down by two hinges, to put in a bed ready furnished by her majesty’s upholsterer, which Glumdalclitch took out every day to air, made it with her own hands, and letting it down at night, locked up the roof over me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I don't think the Parian Psyche Laurie gave lost any of its beauty because John put up the bracket it stood upon, that any upholsterer could have draped the plain muslin curtains more gracefully than Amy's artistic hand, or that any store-room was ever better provided with good wishes, merry words, and happy hopes than that in which Jo and her mother put away Meg's few boxes, barrels, and bundles, and I am morally certain that the spandy new kitchen never could have looked so cozy and neat if Hannah had not arranged every pot and pan a dozen times over, and laid the fire all ready for lighting the minute 'Mis. Brooke came home'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)