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Definition of upholster:

  • (verb) provide furniture with padding, springs, webbing, and covers

Sentence Examples:

Half-sitting, half-lying, in a large, commodious, upholstered swivel chair was the single individual the office contained.

The inspecting carriages are marvels of compactness, containing a saloon upholstered with luxurious settees, a bedroom, bath, and kitchen.

Chair backs were square, round, elliptical or shield-shaped, upholstered or filled with carved wheel, lyre, urn, or other ornament.

"I've grown arrogantly used to bowls coming across this field filled with something delicious, designed to upholster these bones."

The ladies' room contained some beautiful furniture, consisting of some large settees, tables, writing desks, and comfortably upholstered easy chairs.

The chairs and sofas were upholstered in brocade, the predominating colors of which were white, pale yellow, and pale pink.

Laura was a cool-headed woman, shrewd and astute, with heart under perfect control, her feelings well upholstered by adipose.

This indicates the folly, in the case of upholstered furniture, of setting up measures of excellence based upon exactly standardized practice.

The cars are often of the English style, formed into coaches which are cheaply upholstered, though they are reasonably comfortable.

A double row of comfortable wicker or upholstered chairs, a carpet, lavatory facilities, and a good-humored porter will do the trick.

A later development was the introduction of inner-spring units with layers of latex used in place of the usual upholstering material.

The wall coverings, upholstering, and covers for the bookcases and reading tables in the library were hand-tooled elephant hide.

The cars are so poorly constructed, so narrow, and so meanly upholstered, as to appear like worn-out omnibuses built forty years ago.

Yesterday, I received a state visit from the Editor of the Furniture Record seeking advice on how to eradicate mites from upholstering!

Julia, sitting in desperate terror upon a slanting upholstered ledge, felt her teeth chatter, and wondered why she had come.

If he had to live out here awhile instead of in his little upholstered study at the seminary, he would change his definition.

They were upholstered in plush, lighted by oil lamps, heated with box stoves, and mounted on four-wheel trucks with iron wheels.

The floors glowed with the soft reds of oriental rugs, the lounge chairs were upholstered in fabrics gleaming with gold thread.

Those not branded are used more largely for belting and upholstering leathers, a small part finding their way into hemlock leather.

Bill Wilder had flung himself into the upholstered chair which stood before the bureau bookcase which stood in the central apartment.

The latter rose, then staggered, and, half sliding through the woman's sheltering embrace, crumpled limply into a massive upholstered chair.

From this court a stairway leads down into a shaft, the walls of which are softly upholstered something like a leather pocketbook.

Though upholstered furniture is out of place here, chair cushions corresponding with wall paper or draperies give a touch of cozy comfort.

He began covering the upholstered chairs and the mattresses with sheets, rolled up the rugs, and fastened the windows securely.

She does a great deal of sewing and is occupied with everything from upholstering chairs to making posters for lectures and plays.

At the studio, overcome by anxiety and weariness, Jeanne slumped down in a broad, upholstered chair before the fire and fell asleep.

Their interiors are elegantly upholstered, and contain cabins or saloons for the reception of friends, for lounging, or for lunch parties.

The furniture was of French oak upholstered in the same shade of blue tapestry and the curtains were of heavy, blue satin damask.

Driscoll sank into an upholstered chair, and a skirmish began between his purple face and the baby blue of the chair's back.

It was a broad, long couch, upholstered luxuriously in a magnificent dark green that contrasted perfectly with the tones of the sea.

Stripes are popular as upholstered seat covers on dining room chairs, but plain coverings in damask, leather, or tapestry are also in good taste.

They were mainly first and second class coaches, varnished outside and equipped with upholstered compartments where the troopers took their luxurious ease.

We can imagine the beauty of his reclining couches, solid silver, richly chased, the cushions upholstered in purple woven with pure gold.

Through the open doors of the library the guests saw walls upholstered with leather, low bookcases, busts of marble and bronze.

There were three or four wooden chairs for the benefit of scholarly friends, and an armchair upholstered in green rep near the stove.

She laughed, resting her cheek against the upholstered wing of her chair and looked at him with shy but undisguised pleasure.

A mahogany bed with a patchwork quilt for a spread, a mahogany dresser and a huge wicker chair, upholstered in a bright chintz.

The arms are carved, and upholstered in a silk or damask the pattern of which is a combination of flowers and large scrolls.

A moment later the man returned, and politely ushered him into an elevator lined with mirrors, and luxuriously upholstered in red satin.

It is built upon the European plan, with four balconies, three of which are divided off into boxes upholstered in the most luxurious manner.

She was settled comfortably in a bright-red upholstered seat near the main entrance, and on her wrinkled face was an expression of perfect peace.

Many of the cars were gorgeously upholstered, Aladdin's divans of comfort and speed; and some of them were decorated with vases of flowers.

The cockpit, upholstered with a piece of faded red carpet, was barely large enough to allow the three boys to huddle onto it.

A thick gray carpet of velvet pile covered the floor, and the chairs were low and soft and upholstered like a lady's boudoir.

The great bulk of Police Lieutenant Donovan was hunched up in an upholstered armchair beside the table in his private office when Quirk entered.

The breeding nest is a huge ball (unless there is a roomy hollow in the trunk that can be upholstered) with a side entrance.

The rosewood settees and spider-legged chairs were upholstered in the richest flowered brocade, very faded now, but highly respectable in their antiquity.

The room was furnished in abominable taste, with cheap Trench furniture, upholstered with blue brocade that clashed hideously with the scarlet carpet.

Its finishing, however, is in brighter tone; the altar and chairs are upholstered in crimson velvet, and the walls are of light tint.

We got into a splendid little equipage, upholstered in tan cloth and with a large tan umbrella top, which was lined with green.

I whispered to myself, hoarsely, drawing a deep breath, and pushing with all my force into the soft upholstered back of my chair.

The furniture was framed in gold and upholstered in satin brocade, and it consisted of easy chairs, divans and stools in great variety.

The curtains of velvet, and the chairs upholstered in the same material, were of a darker blue that toned in charmingly with the walls.

The chairs were stiffly arranged, but upholstered cheerfully, the tables and mantels crowded with an odd assortment of cheap and handsome ornaments.

In that elegant and eminently respectable place, upholstered and decorated with faultless taste, there was not a hint of publicans and sinners.

These latter were fine apartments, recently upholstered by Maple, and littered with papers, showing every evidence of the hurried departure of their occupants.

President Lincoln found himself placed at the head of a looted government on the sharp edge of a crisis that had not been properly upholstered.

The opportunities of a grateful country for upholstering his stomach with the finest and greenest her pastures proffer, will soon be gone forever.

It was the same cart as before, but a seat with a green upholstered back, from which the stuffing protruded, had been put on.

A large sofa, upholstered with dark crimson velvet, occupies the opposite side, and near this is a bureau, with silver candlesticks and other ornaments.

His parlor is furnished with a suite of dingy upholstered furniture placed neatly round the walls, and in the middle is a round table.

A short colloquy with the clerk at the bureau, and we find ourselves in a gorgeously upholstered elevator, whizzing aloft to the thirteenth floor.

Two low, wide settees, well furnished with cushions and upholstered in dark yellowish-red tapestry, fitted into the corners on either side the double doors.

He went to a far corner of the room and changed the position of an immense upholstered chair so that it was equidistant from each wall.

There are several white-enamel chairs upholstered with the chintz, and there is a comfortable French couch with a kidney table of mahogany beside it.

A chair, upholstered in red velvet, stood on a platform covered with sheet brass and studded plentifully with large-headed nails of the same metal.

The lobby was plush, with thick carpeting, marble pillars, and the usual quota of those who were waiting or simply loafing in upholstered chairs.

In the center of the reception room was a marble statue representing "the Feast," mounted on a large pedestal and encircled by an upholstered settee.

The seats, upholstered in leather of a vivid crimson, served to emphasize and throw into relief the figures of the representatives in somewhat somber attire.

She nodded, lying there, arms raised, hands clasping the upholstered wings of the big chair, and gazing at him out of indolent, amused eyes.

These furnishings followed the contours of the room, their lower parts leading to huge couches upholstered in maroon leather and curved for maximum comfort.

The vehicle was of a most substantial pattern; no repairs have been needed through all these years except an occasional coat of varnish and new upholstering.

Contains detailed, practical instructions telling how to upholster a variety of articles, also how to re-upholster old furniture and how to do spring-edge upholstery work.

There were upholstered benches at the sides; and a civil young artisan offered her his seat, but Lilian preferred to stand and look about her.

How the Sixth District outfit would strip the blue plush off our upholstered friend by the elevator and send him shinning home in a barrel.

The furniture was scant and stiff, and such of it as was upholstered was covered with a cheap cotton corded material of a spurious wine color.

O'Mara from where she stood with her partner in all the glory of a maroon satin that fitted her as if she were an upholstered sofa.

It was lined with fur, upholstered in satin, furnished with cushions, and encircled by a red band which indicated the rank of its owner.

Alexander was seated in a heavily upholstered chair listening to a taped symphony in the stereo, his eyes half closed, an expression of peace on his face.

The chairs were as new and shining as chairs could be; there was a "mission style" rocker, a golden-oak rocker, a cherry rocker, heavily upholstered.

McIntyre looked over the prettily upholstered furniture, then strolled to the window and carefully inspected the lock; it appeared in perfect order as he tested it.

Stiffly the speaker let himself into an upholstered divan and fitted the cushions to his aches and his pains, his bruises and his abrasions.

The saloon was nothing more than a glass case on deck, inside of which, below the windows, a bench upholstered in red plush ran around the sides.

In the latter case it is merely a short board, bare or upholstered, on which the occupant sits astride, with his feet resting on the forward axle.

Who wouldn't rather have a wicker chair than one of those hideous red and green plush upholstered affairs, and the wicker chair certainly costs less.

On closer inspection, however, this hat proved to be a kind of settee, for its entire side was an upholstered seat with strong arms and deep cushions.

I was accustomed to seeing her in this house, just as one sees old upholstered armchairs on which one has been sitting since childhood without ever noticing them.

Two long divan sofas on either side of the fireplace are the only upholstered pieces of furniture in the whole camp, except the mattresses on the beds.

In the middle of the floor stood a wide table with greenish gray upholstered chairs standing about it, and in a corner was a comfortable iron bed.

During this time he produced his ribbon-back chair, though his best chairs, showing this influence, were upholstered armchairs, with legs terminating in French scroll feet.

The "decorators" deal, too, in "parquet floors," and flourish and increase in their kind in response, evidently, to the volume of demand for "upholstering" and "cabinet work."

The atrium of the house was a splendid sight, with its veined marble pillars, mosaic floor, bubbling fountain, choice frescoes, and expensive furniture upholstered in Tyrian purple.

I find that a person can now buy a discarded silver-mounted harness for the cost of a halter and that the people today like an upholstered life.

Sybil laid aside her book, and surveyed the splendid emptiness of the room with a smile of amusement for her monopoly of so much gorgeously upholstered space.

Next second the four of us were in the small elegantly furnished room upholstered in pale blue damask and gold, where the Earl and his wife were in consultation.

He made sofas and settees with either chair-back backs or all upholstered with the frame showing and the covering tacked on with brass tacks close together.

Inside the taxi his lens went slowly over every inch of the upholstering, and with the blade of a penknife he scraped up some soil from the carpet.

In the making of upholstered and reed furniture, machinery plays a subordinate part, and the skill of the craftsman is and always will be the dominant factor.

The chairs were upholstered in gray and blue chintz, and at the windows hung gray silk curtains with just a hint of the blue showing beneath them.

Upholstered seats, rather narrow but long and quite comfortable, were built against the wall and supported by richly carved frames of ebony and panels of cherry.