v. Obs. rare. Also imbolster. [f. EN- + BOLSTER.] trans. To bolster out, to pad (see BOLSTER 2 d). Hence Embolstering vbl. sb.
1593. Nashe, Christ’s T. (1613), 144. The women … adding more Bauines vnto it [beauty] of lasciuious embolstrings.
1630. Brathwait, Eng. Gentlewom. (1641), 301. That … embolsters her decayed brests, to purchase a sweet-heart.
1632. W. Lithgow, Totall Discourse, 466. Wherevpon my hunger-clungd bellie waxing great, grew Drum-like imbolstered.
