Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Fabric, stuffing, and other materials used in upholstering.
- n. The craft, trade, or business of upholstering.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Furniture covered with textile material, and hangings, curtains, and the like: a general term for all such interior decorations and fittings as are made with textiles.
- n. The art or trade of using textiles, leather, and the like in making furniture, decorating an interior, etc.
Wiktionary
- n. The craft or business of upholstering furniture.
- n. The materials so used.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The articles or goods supplied by upholsterers; the business or work of an upholsterer.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the craft of upholstering
- n. covering (padding and springs and webbing and fabric) on a piece of furniture
Examples
“Additionally, the term upholstery also will apply to the seats in cars.”
“Furthermore, the term upholstery also will apply to the seats inside vehicles.”
“To pass the three-minute ride we fillied about with what they called the upholstery, doing some nice horrorshow tearing - out of the seats 'guts and old Dim chaining the okno till the glass cracked and sparkled in the winter air, but we were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure, my brothers, only Dim, like the clowny animal he was, full of the joys-of, but looking all dirtied over and too much von of sweat on him, which was one thing I had against old Dim.”
“The upholstery is white leather and copper tacks over sustainably-harvested-latex foam.”
“•Cloth upholstery is standard; leather comes with the V-6, possibly making you feel less fancy in your four.”
“Additionally, the word upholstery also applies for the seats in vehicles.”
“On top of that, the word upholstery also will apply to the seats in cars.”
“Additionally, the word upholstery also will apply to the seats in automobiles.”
“The upholstery is hand woved onto the wooden structure and is made of non-toxic, waterproof and fire resistant silicone, covered with Paola Lenti’s signature Rope.”
“It featured the neoclassical motifs that had been popular then; the furniture was not burdened with draperies and flounces to hide its "limbs," although the colors were more in keeping with the Victorians 'love of dark shades'the room had been papered in brocade of deep green, the Oriental carpet featured the same color, and the upholstery was a faded burgundy.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘upholstery’.
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
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March 2012
panache, evanescent, erogenous, vestibule, malfeasance, lacuna, blithering, incubate, breech, tabernacle, pearly, upholstery and 79 more...
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Looks like a digraph, but isn't
mishap, mishear, boathouse, courthouse, chophouse, ungainly, anthill, pothole, haphazard, upholstery, hothead, upheaval and 16 more...
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maygra
apropos, advantageous, perception, discombobulated, adumbrate, apogee, perihelion, mortmain, solitudinous, mediastinus, asumbrative, traveler and 498 more...
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(more or less) Temporary Urth List
Temporary list is temporary.
Collecting a few words here, which are then to be alloted to other lists.vassal, gnaw, putrescence, liege, pederasty, disseminate, loot, waning, fitful, hiatuse, plow, pious and 292 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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Wharton, Edith. Age of Innocence. 1920
A list of difficult words for L2-12 learners.
Faust, erection, metropolitan, splendor, shabby, conservatives, cherished, inconvenient, clung, acoustics, coupe, scramble and 261 more...
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Words from "Pearls Before Breakfast"
nondescript, shrewd, seed money, bureaucrat, indeterminate, fungible, cupidity, banal, grandeur, utilitarian, buffer, ecstatic and 123 more...
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Novel Words
Concise words to sprinkle in my prose.
apropos, perception, discombobulated, adumbrate, apogee, antinomy, sanguine, glyph, taciturn, aesthetic, truncate, coffee and 143 more...
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Gaw
Words for things both tangible and anthropic. I'm in the process of spinning off hardware into ute, and people into oofy.
cum-twang, naumachia, yngling, juggernaught, bliss ninny, iliac crest, moistened bint, slumlord, spondoolies, classy lady, charnel house, electrodoméstico and 334 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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kingrat47's Words
procrustean, devolution, cacophony, hippopotamus, crunch, beware, chortled, sibilant, subtle, undermine, acromegaly, acropolis and 645 more...
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Words
flabbergast, quagmire, upholstery, perspicacious, cinnamon, punctilious, callipygian, serendipity, plotz, shlep, defenestration, glockenspiel and 10 more...
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English Words
upholstery, quagmire, notwithstanding, insofar, mingle, eggplant, metadata, bliss, roller coaster, folksonomies, blue
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Clothing&Textiles
argyle, buff, slip, purl, doff, skein, gossamer, tippet, pelisse, particoloured, stola, coronet and 29 more...
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Textiles
A list from the 1911 edition of "Words: Their Spelling, Pronunciation, Definition, Application" by the Gregg Publishing Company.
aigrette, a la mode, Amazon, applique, armure, baize, balbriggan, balmoral, batiste, bedticking, bobbinet, buckram and 88 more...
Tweets
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lampbane "So, does the carpet match the drapes?"
"Yeah, but not the upholstery." Mar 25, 2009
mccote You fold story. Dec 8, 2006