upholster
verb
- add nice things to furniture
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /əˈpɒl.stə(ɹ)/ / /əˈpɐl.stə(ɹ)/
noun
Etymology: From Middle English upholdester, upholster; equivalent to uphold + -ster.
- An upholder, a dealer in secondhand furniture and clothes; an upholsterer; a tradesman who finishes furniture.
verb
Etymology: Back-formation from upholsterer (“tradesman who finishes furniture”), from Middle English upholdester, variant of Middle English upholder (“dealer in small goods”), from upholden (“to repair, uphold”); equivalent to uphold + -ster. Sense development as well as form may have been influenced by conflation with unrelated bolster.
- To fit padding, stuffing, springs, webbing and fabric covering to (furniture).