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Polster

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle High German polster ‘cushion’, ‘pillow’, ‘bolster’ (Old High German polstar), hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of pillows, or a nickname for a plump man.

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