gas bracket
- noun
- Archaic
:
aplique de gas
- We installed a new gas bracket to provide light for our garden patio.
Examples
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I always find lighting difficult: torches, candles, tallow for the poor, beeswax for the rich, and for churches, gas brackets.
Academic text (2008) -
The old house was illuminated by a vintage gas bracket in the dining room.
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In the theater, bright gas brackets cast a warm glow over the audience.
Synonyms
A device that sends gas from a pipe to a flame for indoor light
A pipe, valve, or meter that carries gas to appliances inside a building
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Morphology
The compound is directly compositional: 'gas' (fuel) + 'bracket' (wall-mounted support) yields a wall-mounted support or fixture associated with gas. This follows standard noun-compounding patterns and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer the basic meaning even if the specific historical fixture is unfamiliar.
Etymology
Gas bracket comes from the metal arm or small pipe that held a gas lamp on a wall. Imagine a short metal bracket sticking out with a burner for gas lighting, so the name came to mean 'a wall fixture for gas lamps'.