(n.) A kind of carpet having a short velvety pile.
Example Sentences:
Upholster
Definition:
(v. t.) To furnish (rooms, carriages, bedsteads, chairs, etc.) with hangings, coverings, cushions, etc.; to adorn with furnishings in cloth, velvet, silk, etc.; as, to upholster a couch; to upholster a room with curtains.
(n.) A broker.
(n.) An upholsterer.
Example Sentences:
(1) The public are growing angrier by the day by the antics of those who inhabit this gold plated, red-upholstered Narnia.
(2) In June 1988, 110 dust samples from carpets, cushions, mattresses and upholstered furniture were collected by vacuum cleaner in 33 municipal nursery schools.
(3) Traditional isn't really very specific but gives everyone a kind of well-upholstered, wood-panelled sense of well-being.
(4) People tend to wince at the cost of having furniture reupholstered, but when you think about how long it should last (a well-upholstered chair should be good for 30 years) there's nothing throwaway about it.
(5) Acarosan and liquid nitrogen, were found to be effective in the treatment of mattress, pillow, upholstered furniture and heavy curtains.
(6) But then I have to remind myself that the chair I'm sitting on – which I inherited from my aunt – is the one I've upholstered, with horsehair, and covered in a fabric of my choosing.
(7) Inside the glass-fronted reception of the state-of-the-art hospital are rows of upholstered chairs.
(8) Away from the pitch, in the expensively upholstered lobbies and meeting rooms where the business of global sport is discussed in hushed tones by men in grey suits, he has been altogether more successful.
(9) Burn related deaths (1977-86) and injuries (1986) from the Health Statistics Services hospitalisation records were examined to identify cases in which upholstered furniture and bedding were implicated and analysed to describe the situation.
(10) Across the country, inmates have a hand in building desks, molding dentures, grinding lenses for glasses, stitching flags and upholstering chairs.
(11) Today, when I meet Wood in the upholstered plushness of a central London hotel, he looks essentially the same as he did three decades ago – a bit more weather-beaten, perhaps, but still sporting an identical Worzel Gummidge hairstyle and spray-on skinny jeans that seem to have been beamed in directly from the 1970s.
(12) Upstairs in "extended recovery", where clients who had been less than 12 weeks' pregnant are taken after surgery, a sick-bowl and a box of tissues are carefully arranged next to each of the five sleek reclining chairs upholstered in BPAS purple.
(13) The qualitative and quantitative species composition of fungi in carpets and upholstered furniture dust found in the living-rooms of nine Dutch dwellings was examined in a pilot study.
(14) Upholstered furniture is considered by governments in the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and New Zealand to be a potentially hazardous product.
(15) Characteristics of upholstered furniture available in New Zealand during the 1987 production year were identified through responses to a questionnaire sent to manufacturers, wholesalers and importers of this type of furniture.
(16) Your cosy phrase "the upholstered apocalypse" gestures, rather worryingly, towards an imaginative and critical impasse of sorts, doesn't it?
(17) Some of the relevant seat characteristics concern back rest, seat base, arm rests, upholstering, individual adaptation and integration into the environment.
(18) Bedding, mattresses and bedroom furniture were reported more frequently than upholstered furniture.
(19) Using a hand-held vacuum especially equipped with a removable micropore filter, a 2-m2 area of carpet was vacuumed for two minutes and an identical sample was collected from the major upholstered piece of furniture in the room.
(20) The best results are achieved by sanitation of carpets, less favourable results are obtained by treating matresses and upholstered furniture.