"gas-bracket" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: gas-brackets [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} gas-bracket (plural gas-brackets)
  1. Alternative form of gas bracket. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: gas bracket
    Sense id: en-gas-bracket-en-noun-pztBddF0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "text": "“[…] 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.",
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