ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ED.] Furnished or fitted with upholsterer’s work.
1837. Carlyle, Misc. (1840), V. 167. Farewell, thou old Château, with thy upholstered rooms.
1866. Lond. Rev., 6 Jan., 4/1. Sofa-divans, and … arm-chairs all comfortably upholstered with national colours.
1889. Mrs. E. Kennard, Landing a Prize, i. The drawing-room [is] rosewood, upholstered in red damask.
fig. 1892. W. H. Mallock, Human Document, xviii. Considered by others as an article essential to a decorously upholstered mind.
