Meaning of gas-bracket | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

Examples

““[…] and further, to ordain the respondent to restore to the said mansion-house and offices the following articles which may already have been removed from the said mansion-house or others, viz. dining-room and lobby lustres, dining-room wall gas-brackets, the two brackets in the boudoir, the drawing-room grate, and two stone lions, the ferns and other plants which were in the vineries at the time of the sale,” &c.”

“Wall gas-brackets should never be allowed to swing, for if perfectly safe at a distance of one foot from woodwork, the bracket is often turned toward the wall, and consequently all precaution as to distance is useless.”

“These pieces of card of the exact size of bedsteads, bureaus, buffets, etc., can be moved about on the architect’s floor-plan of each room to determine the location of windows, doors, gas-brackets, etc.”

“Wall gas-brackets were of the same style as the pendant gaseliers.”

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