Usually means: Cover furniture with fabric, padding.
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  1. upholster: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. upholster: Merriam-Webster
  3. upholster: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. upholster: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. upholster: Collins English Dictionary
  6. upholster: Vocabulary.com
  7. upholster: Wordnik
  8. upholster: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. upholster: Wiktionary
  10. upholster: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. upholster: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. upholster: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. upholster: Dictionary.com
  14. upholster (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. upholster: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Upholster: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. upholster: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. upholster: Rhymezone
  19. Upholster: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. upholster: FreeDictionary.org
  21. upholster: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. upholster: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. upholster: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. upholster: Encyclopedia

(Note: See upholstered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive) To fit padding, stuffing, springs, webbing and fabric covering to (furniture).
noun:  (archaic) An upholder, a dealer in secondhand furniture and clothes; an upholsterer; a tradesman who finishes furniture.

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