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coverings, cushions, etc.; to adorn with furnishings in cloth, velvet, silk, etc.; as, to upholster a couch; to upholster a room with curtains.

One who provides hangings, coverings, cushions, curtains, and the like; one who upholsters. Upholsterer bee. (Zoöl.) See Poppy bee, under Poppy.

The articles or goods supplied by upholsterers; the business or work of an upholsterer.

Cotton prepared in sheets or rolls for quilting, upholstering, and similar purposes.

uous course). Curled hair (Com.), the hair of the manes and tails of horses, prepared for upholstery purposes. McElrath.

A kind of stuffing for upholstered furniture, mattresses, etc., in which curled shreds of wood are substituted for curled hair.

cord, running through it; -- used as trimming for dresses, furniture, etc. Gimp nail, an upholsterer's small nail.

A thick woolen fabric, watered or with embossed figures; -- used in upholstery, for curtains, etc.

eris) which uses pieces cut from poppy petals for the lining of its cells; -- called also upholsterer bee. -- Prickly poppy (Bot.), Argemone Mexicana, a yellow-flowered plant of the Poppy family, but as prickly as a thistle. -- Poppy seed, the seed the opium poppy (P. somniferum). -- Spatling poppy (Bot.), a species…

A maker of tapestry; an upholsterer. [R.] Chaucer.

er all silk, or silk and worsted, or silk and cotton, often called terry velvet, used for upholstery and trimmings.

An upholsterer. [Obs.]

A machine for cleaning carpets, tapestry, upholstered work, etc., by suction.