upholster
pronunciation
How to pronounce upholster in British English:
UK [ʌpˈhəʊlstə(r)]
How to pronounce upholster in American English:
US [ʌpˈhoʊlstə(r)]
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- Verb:
- provide furniture with padding, springs, webbing, and covers
Word Origin
- upholster
- upholster: [19] Upholster has no etymological connection with holsters. It is a back-formation from upholsterer [17], which itself was derived from an earlier but now obsolete upholster ‘person who deals in or repairs small articles’. This was an agent noun formed from the verb uphold [13] (a compound of up and hold), in the now defunct sense ‘repair’.=> hold
- upholster (v.)
- 1853, back-formation from upholsterer. Related: Upholstered; upholstering.
Example
- 1. Jinhui upholster material factory , songgang , nanhai .
- 2. Paper product package box , package upholster printing product .
- 3. The young couple plan to upholster their bedroom with velvet .
- 4. Processing manufacturing selling : furniture upholster paper .
- 5. Baidisi upholster board factory , nanhai , foshan .