Of a piece of furniture: that rests on a base or feet when set up for use, as distinguished from one meant to hang from or lean on something…

Made of or consisting of plush; covered or upholstered in plush; (of a carpet, etc.) having a thick pile. Formerly also: †wearing plush (obsolete).

attributive and in the genitive. Designating styles of architecture or furniture popular during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.

Of a piece of furniture, etc.: made or adapted for use on a particular or special occasion or as the occasion demands; made or adapted for…

= Adamesque, adj.

finished with French polish (also punningly).

Furnished or fitted with upholsterer's work.

= Adamesque, adj.

Designating an elegant style of ornamental furniture popularized in the pattern books of the English cabinetmaker Thomas Chippendale (1718–79)…

attributive. Designating styles of architecture, furniture, etc., characteristic or suggestive of the time of Queen Anne, or a thing made in such a…

Constructed so as to be easily ‘knocked down’ or taken in pieces for removal (see to knock down 6 at knock, v. phrasal verbs sold as, or in the…

attributive. Chiefly in Wellington chest. Designating a tall narrow chest of (usually shallow) drawers, often lockable by means of a hinged flap…

Designating architecture, furniture, etc., resembling that designed by the Adam brothers; characteristic of their style. See Adam, n.2

Designating a severe style of furniture developed in England towards the end of the 18th cent., chiefly by Thomas Sheraton. Also absol.

Used attributively to designate an English style of furniture of the latter part of the eighteenth century, characterized by lightness, delicacy…

Of furniture: designed in the style of art nouveau. Now rare.

Having an outward swelling curve, esp. of furniture. Also in combinations.

Originally U.S. Designating a piece of furniture that is a lowboy (sense A. 2); resembling a lowboy.

In the furniture trade, designating wood of the colour of dark oak, or the colour itself; also denoting furniture made in mock-Jacobean style.

Upholstery. Of a chair, sofa, etc.: having the frame covered with a thick layer of stuffing which imparts a rounded shape to the arms and back.

Designating (an article of) furniture popular in North America during the second half of the 19th cent. and decorated with spool-shaped turnery.

As a modifier. Applied to a style of southern-colonial architecture and decoration considered characteristic of Williamsburg in Colonial times, and…

Able to be stacked or piled up: esp. of chairs and other furniture.

Applied to a style of furnishing, etc., in a Scandinavian manner, esp. as characterized by simplicity of design and the use of pine-wood.

Of objects, etc., other than carpeting: extending from one wall to another; providing coverage of an entire space. Also as quasi-adv.

Of or designating the style or period of Populuxe.