• Gas-bracket

    Full definition of gas-bracket

    Noun

    1. Alternative form of en.
      • 20 February 1880, “... 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.
      • 1 July 1880, Location of Gas Lights, 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.
      • Moore Build a Home|page=43|passage=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.
      • 1949, w:John Gloag, The Englishman’s Castle: A History of Houses, Large and Small, in Town and Country, from A. D. 100 to the Present Day, Wall gas-brackets were of the same style as the pendant gaseliers.
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