Meanings
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of bolster
adjectivebolstered (not comparable)
- not comparablepadded
What fifty men dared not have done, one woman did! a painted, patched, fucused, periwigged, bolstered, Charybdis, cannibal, Megaera, Lamia!
1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!
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