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overstuffing en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Material used in upholstering just under the top fabric.
    • Always use a layer of wadding or cotton overstuffing to make the work smooth. 1920, Furniture Manufacturer and Artisan, volume 19, page 49:
    • To remedy this, additional stuffing is pushed up under the overstuffing so as to crowd it out and fill up all hollows. 1914, John Wesley Stephenson, Furniture Upholstering: A Practical Handbook for the Upholsterer:
    • I have taken many an old sofa to pieces to find the understuffing was marsh hay, with a heavy over-stuffing of cotton, with no edge, but simply plain tufting. 1892, The Furniture Gazette, page 224:

overstuffing en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of overstuff
    form of overstuff