upholsterern.
/ʌpˈhəʊlst(ə)rə/, U.S. /ˌəpˈ(h)oʊlst(ə)rər/ a. A tradesman or shopkeeper whose business is the making, finishing, or repairing of articles of furniture and other house-furnishings in which woven or similar fabrics, or materials used for stuffing these, are employed.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > maker of furniture or furnishings > [noun] > upholsterer
coucher1415
upholsterer1613
upholster1666
upholder1761
bug hunter1788
1613 J. Marston & W. Barksted Insatiate Countesse C j b The fault's in my Vpholsterer, Lady.
1653 W. Ramesey Astrologia Restaurata 132 If thou makest the childe..a Perfumer,..Glover or Upholsterer.
1677 London Gaz. No. 1233/4 Mr. Cooke an Upholsterer next door to the Star.
1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 111 Upholdsterers, Joyners, Cabinet-makers.
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. i. 334 Upholsterers frequently lett furniture by the month or by the year. View more context for this quotation
1823 ‘G. Smith’ Not Paul, but Jesus 85 Tent-making: an art, in which the operations of the architect and the upholsterer are combined.
1875 W. S. Hayward Love against World 6 Painters, decorators, upholsterers,..were immediately set to work.
b. transferred. Applied to certain bees and birds. Also attributive.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > member of (bee)
beea1000
honeybird1599
upholsterer1830
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > member of family Megachilidae (leaf-cutter)
leaf-cutting bee1763
leaf-cutter bee1781
upholsterer1830
the world > animals > birds > unspecified and miscellaneous birds > [noun] > unspecified
tidifec1385
tymor?a1400
holste14..
popard1411
popera1450
wercocka1475
tytyferc1565
caladrie1567
butwin1570
brandlet1576
pecteale1579
stockard1579
tanterueale1579
pyralis1580
twite1582
gnat-snapper1598
herodian1609
grindle1610
skirwingle1610
spawe1610
tydie1612
fillady1620
wake1623
gnat-gnapper1627
blackbird1678
ricebird1704
long tongue1731
angle-taster1744
stearing1769
weaver-oriole1782
weaver-bunting1783
sedge-wren1802
satin grackle1822
Audubon1837
nankeen bird1837
fife-bird1854
jug1881
upholsterer1890
1830 J. Rennie Insect Archit. 53 The leaf-cutting bees..may be denominated more generally ‘upholsterer-bees’, as there are some of them which use other materials beside leaves.
1840 J. O. Westwood Introd. Mod. Classif. Insects II. 272 They have been termed..upholsterer bees;..the upholsterers employ in the construction of their cells portions of leaves.
1890 C. Dixon Ann. Bird Life 84 Upholsterers.—The birds which come into the present group comprise the Ducks and Geese.
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