upholster
Pronunciation: /əˈpɒl.stə(ɹ)/
The English word “upholster” has 2 meanings listed here.
verb
noun
- An upholder, a dealer in secondhand furniture and clothes; an upholsterer; a tradesman who finishes furniture.
Etymology
Back-formation from upholsterer (“tradesman who finishes furniture”), from Middle English upholdester, variant of Middle English upholder (“dealer in small goods”), from upholden (“to repair, uphold”); equivalent to uphold + -ster. Sense development as well as form may have been influenced by conflation with unrelated bolster.
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