gas-bracket
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.81 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "“[…] 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."