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9 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb provide furniture with padding, springs, webbing, and covers
originBack-formation from upholsterer (“tradesman who finishes furniture”), from Middle English upholdester, variant of Middle English upholder (“dealer in small goods”), from upholden (“to repair, uphold”); equivalent to uphold + -ster. Sense development as well as form may have been influenced by conflation with unrelated bolster.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- superhot 13
- hotspur 12
- plusher 12
- pothers 12
- strophe 12
- thorpes 12
- uphroes 12
- ephors 11
- hopers 11
- ouphes 11
- posher 11
- pother 11