In the edition of Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome I have just read a number of words are footnoted for comment. I mention two
Carcel lamps are oil lamps that made a bubbling noise, named for a French inventor
(In the "best parlour," with its black horse-hair and mahogany weakly illuminated by a gurgling Carcel lamp, I listened every evening ...)
Huckabuck is an inexpensive absorbent cotton fabric
(I know there's a huckabuck towel missing; and I can't take out what you done with that match-safe 't used to stand behind the stuffed owl in the parlour.)
