upholsteredadj.
/ʌpˈhəʊlstəd/, U.S. /ˌəpˈ(h)oʊlstərd/ a. Furnished or fitted with upholsterer's work.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > [adjective] > types of furniture generally
standing1444
plush1615
Queen Elizabeth1673
occasional1749
Adametic1774
French-polished1836
upholstered1837
Adamish1838
Chippendale1855
Queen Anne1863
knock-down1875
Wellington chest1880
Adamesque1881
Sheraton1883
Hepplewhite1897
quaint1897
bombé1904
lowboy1915
Jacobean1918
overstuffed1922
spool1928
Williamsburg1931
thermed1952
stackable1958
Scandinavian1959
wall-to-wall1959
Populuxe1986
1837 T. Carlyle Crit. & Misc. Ess. (1840) V. 167 Farewell, thou old Château, with thy upholstered rooms.
1866 London Rev. 6 Jan. 4/1 Sofa-divans, and..arm-chairs all comfortably upholstered with national colours.
1889 M. E. Kennard Landing Prize i The drawing-room [is] rosewood, upholstered in red damask.
b. figurative and transferred. Esp. of persons (euphemistically): (well-)dressed; plump, stocky. See also well-upholstered adj.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > smartly or elegantly dressed
well-arrayeda1387
well-clada1400
well-apparelledc1450
well-dressed1484
fine1526
point-devicea1529
feat1560
tiffety-taffety1595
well-gowned1632
well-rigged1741
neat-dressed1757
smartc1778
well-turned-out1825
well-tailored1828
upholstered1892
whip-smart1937
sharp1944
pressed1963
the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [adjective] > fat or plump
fatc893
frimOE
fullOE
overfatOE
greatOE
bald1297
roundc1300
encorsivea1340
fattishc1369
fleshyc1369
fleshlyc1374
repletea1398
largec1405
corsious1430
corpulentc1440
corsyc1440
fulsome1447
portlyc1487
corporate1509
foggy fata1529
corsive1530
foggish?1537
plump1545
fatty1552
fleshful1552
pubble1566
plum1570
pursy1576
well-fleshed1576
gross?1577
fog1582
forfatted1586
gulchy1598
bouksome1600
fat-fed1607
meatified1607
chuff1609
plumpya1616
bloat1638
blowze-like1647
obese1651
jollya1661
bloated1664
chubbed1674
pluffya1689
puffya1689
pussy1688
sappy1694
crummy1718
chubby1722
fodgel1724
well-padded1737
beefy1743
plumpish1753
pudsy1754
rotund1762
portable1770
lusty1777
roundabout1787
well-cushioned1802
plenitudinous1803
stout1804
embonpointc1806
roly-poly1808
adipose1810
roll-about1815
foggy1817
poddy1823
porky1828
hide-blown1834
tubby1835
stoutish1836
tubbish1836
superfatted1841
pottle-bodied1842
pincushiony1851
opulent1882
well-covered1884
well-upholstered1886
butterball1888
endomorphic1888
tisty-tosty1888
pachyntic1890
barrel-bodied1894
overweight1899
pussy-gutted1906
upholstered1924
1892 W. H. Mallock Human Document xviii Considered by others as an article essential to a decorously upholstered mind.
1924 P. G. Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith iii. 60 This sumptuously upholstered young woman.
1929 D. H. Lawrence Pansies 31 The upholstered dead that sit in deep arm-chairs.
1958 S. J. Perelman Most of S. J. Perelman 21 Where are those big, jolly, upholstered girls one used to see?
1976 R. Lehmann Sea-grape Tree 6 British travellers..stoutly upholstered middle-aged couples from the Midlands.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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adj.1837