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  • noun Plural form of upholsterer.

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Examples

  • Instead of calling the upholsterers or your lawyer, patch things up: big red squares stitched on the creamy buttah.

    Home Swell Home Cynthia Rowley 2002

  • Instead of calling the upholsterers or your lawyer, patch things up: big red squares stitched on the creamy buttah.

    Home Swell Home Cynthia Rowley 2002

  • Instead of calling the upholsterers or your lawyer, patch things up: big red squares stitched on the creamy buttah.

    Home Swell Home Cynthia Rowley 2002

  • It may be filled with hair or elastic felt such as upholsterers use.

    Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 1891

  • Brass-headed tacks such as upholsterers use are required.

    Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 3 1891

  • After we bought the bargain sofa, Mark commissioned the master craftsmen/upholsterers at Guido De Angelis Inc. to build another sofa to match it, and had both covered top-to-toe in a black wool hopsacking.

    Furniture as Part of the Family Duane Hampton 2011

  • Samir Milad fixes sewing machines; he's done it since he was 11, since Defarkas sent him hustling with bobbins and needles through Cairo's alleys, past plumes of wool and cotton, past nut sellers and upholsterers, past the bygone bordellos near the stock exchange.

    LA Times Series on Life in Cairo, #5: Sewing Machine Repairman zhukora1 2008

  • But we also have materials relating to their friends, enemies, doctors, mistresses, creditors, upholsterers, etc. ... together with all the books, political pamphlets, prints and objects from the period, the Collection really allows researchers to reconstruct what life was like in Romantic-era Britain.

    The New York Public Library: It's Alive: Mary Shelley's first Work Gets Remixed The New York Public Library 2010

  • But we also have materials relating to their friends, enemies, doctors, mistresses, creditors, upholsterers, etc. ... together with all the books, political pamphlets, prints and objects from the period, the Collection really allows researchers to reconstruct what life was like in Romantic-era Britain.

    The New York Public Library: It's Alive: Mary Shelley's first Work Gets Remixed The New York Public Library 2010

  • Dissolving her partnership with Tiffany in 1883, Wheeler established her own textile design firm — remember, she was pushing 60 — and became one of the first women to work professionally in a field dominated by male upholsterers, architects, and cabinetmakers.

    Candace Wheeler, 1827-1923: Entrepreneur, Artist, and Founder of American Interior Design « AAUW Dialog 2010

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