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Aug. 02, 2016
galluses\GAL-uh-siz\noun
1. Older Use. a pair of suspenders for trousers.
QuotesHe wore a pale green shirt with a thin black stripe in it and
blue galluses and his trousers cut across a protruding stomach that he
pressed tenderly from time to time with his big flat thumb.
-- Flannery O'Connor, "A Temple of the Holy Ghost," A Good Man Is Hard
to Find, 1955
Origin of gallusesGalluses is a variant of gallows meaning
"suspenders; braces." It entered English in the early 1800s.More From
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