upholsterer

UK/ʌpˈhəʊl.stəɹ.ə/US/ʌpˈhoʊl.stəɹ.əɹ/

nounC2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — hold sits at #107neutral

Other forms: upholsterers

An upholsterer is a worker who covers furniture in fabric. Take it to an upholsterer.

The work is springs and webbing underneath as much as the cloth on top. An upholsterer can make an old chair better than a new one and costs about the same.

Definitions of upholsterer

1nounupholstererA worker who covers furniture in fabric.C2
“The upholsterer took four months and the chair outlived everybody.”

upholsterer is a worker.

Where it comes from

From upholster, itself from Middle English upholder, a dealer in second-hand goods who repaired them.

Middle English
upholdester
English, today
upholsterer

Built from

upholden · Middle English — to repair, uphold

From upholster + -er, from Middle English upholdester, upholster, from Middle English upholder (“dealer in small goods”), from upholden (“to repair, uphold”). by surface analysis, uphold + -ster + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Jobs & Professions

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upholsterer in the wild

However, over the years, the Company's power has eroded, as has the profession of upholsterers, because of the advancement of technology.
Worshipful Company of Upholders
August Vincent Theodore Spies was an American upholsterer, radical labor activist, and newspaper editor.
August Spies
A person who works with upholstery is called an upholsterer.
Upholstery
An apprentice upholsterer is sometimes called an outsider or trimmer.
Upholstery
To apply tacks rapidly, an upholsterer will hold tacks in the mouth and spit them, head first, onto the magnetized face of the hammer.
Upholstery hammer

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