upholster
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Verb — To cover furniture with soft padding and fabric.
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Etymology
A back-formation from upholsterer (“tradesman who finishes furniture”), which comes from Middle English upholdester, a variant of Middle English upholder (“dealer in small goods”), from upholden (“to repair, uphold”); equivalent to uphold + -ster. Its sense development and form may also have been shaped by conflation w...
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