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galluses
[ gal-uh-siz ]
noun
(used with a plural verb)
- a pair of suspenders for trousers.
galluses
/ ˈɡæəɪ /
plural noun
- dialect.braces for trousers
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Other Word Forms
- lܲ adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of galluses1
C18: variant spelling of gallowses, from gallows (in the obsolete sense: braces)
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Then Pa got for himself a pair of galluses and some tobacco to smoke in his pipe.
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He had an old battered-up slouch hat on, and a greasy blue woolen shirt, and ragged old blue jeans britches stuffed into his boot-tops, and home-knit galluses—no, he only had one.
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Then he served the trousers and the "galluses" the same way; likewise Benny Ellison's socks.
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"More or less," he admitted, wishing to goodness he had on his best pair of "galluses" instead of the ones he was wearing.
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A motley company of about a dozen men they were, dressed in cheap trousers supported by "galluses," coarse shirts, and wide-brim straw hats.
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