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upholsterer|ʌpˈhəʊlstərə(r)|
Also 8 uphoulstarer, upholdsterer.
[f. upholster n. + -er1 3.]
A tradesman or shopkeeper whose business is the making, finishing, or repairing of articles of furniture and other house-furnishings in which woven or similar fabrics, or materials used for stuffing these, are employed.
1613Marston Insatiate Countesse C j b, The fault's in my Vpholsterer, Lady. 1653W. Ramesey Astrol. Restored 132 If thou makest the childe..a Perfumer,..Glover or Upholsterer. 1677Lond. Gaz. No. 1233/4 Mr. Cooke an Upholsterer next door to the Star. 1722De Foe Plague (1754) 111 Upholdsterers, Joyners, Cabinet-makers. 1776Adam Smith W.N. ii. i. I. 334 Upholsterers frequently lett furniture by the month or by the year. 1823Bentham Not Paul 85 Tent-making: an art, in which the operations of the architect and the upholsterer are combined. 1875W. S. Hayward Love agst. World 6 Painters, decorators, upholsterers,..were immediately set to work.
fig.1642T. Trescot Zeal. Magist. 14 Better to meet with sound Reprovers,..than the Devills Vpholsterers. 1779Hervey Nav. Hist. II. 459 This led the prince of Conti to call Luxembourg ‘The Upholsterer of Notre Dame’.
b. transf. Applied to certain bees and birds. Also attrib.
1830J. Rennie Insect Archit. 53 The leaf-cutting bees..may be denominated more generally ‘upholsterer-bees’, as there are some of them which use other materials beside leaves. 1840Westwood Introd. Mod. Classif. Insects II. 272 They have been termed..upholsterer bees;..the upholsterers employ in the construction of their cells portions of leaves. 1890C. Dixon Ann. Bird Life 84 Upholsterers.—The birds which come into the present group comprise the Ducks and Geese. |