upholstery

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up·hol·ster·y

(ŭp-hōl′stə-rē, -strē, ə-pōl′-)

n. pl. up·hol·ster·ies

1. Fabric, stuffing, and other materials used in upholstering.

2. The craft, trade, or business of upholstering.

upholstery

(ʌpˈhəʊlstərɪ)

n, pl -steries

1. (Furniture) the padding, covering, etc, of a piece of furniture

2. (Furniture) the business, work, or craft of upholstering

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Noun	1.	upholstery - covering (padding and springs and webbing and fabric) on a piece of furniture covering - an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it) seat - furniture that is designed for sitting on; "there were not enough seats for all the guests"
	2.	upholstery - the craft of upholstering craft, trade - the skilled practice of a practical occupation; "he learned his trade as an apprentice"

Translations

حِرْفَة التَّنْجيدلَوازِم التَّنْجيد

čalounění

møbelpolstringpolstring

Polsterung

rembourrage

kárpitosmunkakárpitozás

áklæîibólstrun

imbottitura tappezzeria

bekledingpolsterenpolstering

møbelstoff møbelstopping

čalúnenie

döşemedöşeme malzemesidöşemelik eşya

室内装璜室内装璜业

upholstery

[ʌpˈhəʊlstərɪ] N

1. (cushioning etc) → tapizado m, almohadillado m; (in car) → tapizado m

2. (= trade) → tapicería f

upholstery

[ʌpˈhəʊlstəri] n (= covering) [chair, sofa] → garniture f; (in car) → garniture f

upholstery

n (= padding and springs) → Polsterung f; (= cover) → Bezug m; (= trade) → Polsterei f; (= skill) → das Polstern

upholstery

[ʌpˈhəʊlst/ərɪ] n → tappezzeria

upholster

(apˈhəulstə) verb

to fit (seats) with springs, stuffing, covers etc. He upholstered the chair.

upˈholstered adjective

upholstered chairs.

upˈholsterer noun

a person who makes, repairs or sells upholstered furniture.

upˈholstery noun

1. the business or process of upholstering.

2. the springs, coverings etc of eg a chair. luxurious upholstery.

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He was a weaver by trade; had been a skilled workman on tapestries and upholstery materials.

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But Herbert's was a very different case, and it often caused me a twinge to think that I had done him evil service in crowding his sparely-furnished chambers with incongruous upholstery work, and placing the canary-breasted Avenger at his disposal.

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The walls were all hung with black, but, instead of the white trimmings that usually set off that funereal upholstery, there was an enormous stave of music with the notes of the DIES IRAE, many times repeated.

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The curtains and upholstery of the chairs and sofas and the hangings of my bed are of the costliest and most beautiful fabrics, and must have been of fabulous value when they were made, for they are centuries old, though in excellent order.

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Indeed, whether on carpets, or curtains, or tapestry, or ottoman coverings, all upholstery of this nature should be rigidly Arabesque.

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Does he explain how he blows all the glass and stuffs all the upholstery," asked Fisher, "and makes all the silver forks, and grows all the grapes and peaches, and designs all the patterns on the carpets?

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Mrs d'Urberville slept in a large four-post bedstead hung with heavy damask curtains, and the bullfinches occupied the same apartment, where they flitted about freely at certain hours, and made little white spots on the furniture and upholstery.

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Mingott, who had built her house later, had bodily cast out the massive furniture of her prime, and mingled with the Mingott heirlooms the frivolous upholstery of the Second Empire.

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Bucket, putting his hat upon the table with an air of business rather in the upholstery way than otherwise, "my wish is, as it has been all the evening, to make things pleasant.

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to the Coliseum the gilding, the rich upholstery and the uniform

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Reptiles that they are, the rough surface of a great stone is to them as plush as upholstery to us.

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His hands were gripping the arms of the stall, his eyes were fixed upon the spot somewhere behind the curtain where this sudden little drama had been played out, as though indeed they could pierce the heavy upholstery and see beyond into the room where the very air seemed quivering still with the vehemence of the woman's outpoured scorn.