Meaning & use
Galluses
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Suspenders used to hold up trousers, especially in older or rural American and British dialect.
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The old farmer hitched up his galluses before heading out to the barn.
He wore a pair of red galluses over his flannel shirt.
A note on using this word
"Galluses" is a dialectal variant of "gallows," since both suspend something by straps in a similar way.
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suspendersbraces
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