UPHOLSTER • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Upholster

... "struggle for life," but looked as though they pined for the freedom of the woods again. Within, the church justified the promise of its external condition. The board of trustees are poor. Every man had been permitted to upholster his own pew. Some, without owners, were also without upholstering. In the rest, the only merit was variety. The church looked as though it had clothed itself in a Joseph's coat of many colors; or rather, its robe presented the appearance of poor Joe Sweaten's pantaloons, ...

— Laicus - The experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish • Lyman Abbott

... suffocating sweetness procured at the perfumer's. Their costumes, as to architecture, were the latest fashion intensified; they were rainbow-hued; they were hung with jewels—chiefly diamonds. It would have been plain to any eye that it had cost something to upholster ...

— The Gilded Age, Part 4. • Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and Charles Dudley Warner