GR translation: a gallery hung to lace dandies

[David Morris]

"Hung to" here literally means "hung [with portraits of]."  It's just a
shorthand kind of grammar.  Digging deeper it might mean "hung [with
portraits in tribute] to."

David Morris

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 8:02 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V230.39-231.9, P233.31-40   Lights, all but a sprinkling, are out at
> “The White Visitation.” Thes ky tonight is deep blue, blue as a Navy
> greatcoat, and the clouds in it are amazingly white. The wind is keen
> and cold. Old Brigadier Pudding, trembling, slips from his quarters
> down the back stairs, by a route only he knows, through the vacant
> orangery in the starlight, along a gallery hung to lace dandies,
> horses, ladies with hard-boiled eggs for eyes, out a small entresol
> (point of maximum danger . . .) and into a lumber-room, whose stacks
> of junk and random blacknesses, even this far from his childhood, are
> good for a chill, out again and down a set of metal steps, singing, he
> hopes quietly, for courage:
>
> What does "hung to" mean here?
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