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well-upholstered

adjective

  1. informal,  (well upholstered when postpositive) (of a person) fat

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Leaving aside that most healthcare spending is incurred in treating the very sick or at the end of life, improving the primary care patient experience — well-upholstered office furniture, smiling doctors and nurses, same-day primary care appointments, etc., etc. — “is not going to save money on health care,” Chandra asserted.

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I was a customer of White Pony Tony’s, regularly settling into the well-upholstered stand he had in the window of McCormick & Schmick’s on K Street NW.

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The restaurant, accented with dark wood, is not quite as cozy with leather banquettes as some others in the group, but there’s a well-upholstered lounge on the lower level that will open in late September.

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In the well-upholstered parlor of the Rev. J.T.

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“A dining chair or even a well-upholstered side chair is only meant to provide comfort for a couple hours,” Miller says, and is not contoured to your body in a posture appropriate for working in front of a computer screen all day.

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