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单词 galluses
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Definition of galluses in English:

galluses

plural nounˈɡaləsɪzˈɡæləsəz
North American, Scottish
  • Braces for a person's trousers.

    he wore cream-coloured slacks held up by red galluses
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Scots word for braces, straps supporting trousers from the shoulders, is sometimes spelt ‘galluses’ and is a corruption of the term ‘gallows’, the apparatus for capital punishment by hanging.
    • By that time, he had gotten to be very stout and usually wore galluses, but in addressing at hotel at the banquet, he and his wife seemed to be in a hurry and he left off his galluses.
    • Their hats should be creased fore and aft like a fedora, and I don't like exposed galluses.
    • Here, at one of the Winter Range shoots, this California cowboy has donned a ‘Montana pinch’ hat, bib front shirt, galluses, and an original pair of circa 1890s wooly shotgun chaps, along with his square-toed boots, California-pattern spurs, wild rag, and Colt Peacemaker and frontier-era gunleather.
    • It helped to hide the suspenders, or galluses, which held up the trousers.

Origin

Mid 19th century: plural of gallus, variant of gallows.

 
 

Definition of galluses in US English:

galluses

plural nounˈɡæləsəzˈɡaləsəz
Scottish, North American
  • Suspenders for trousers.

    he wore cream-colored slacks held up by red galluses
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Here, at one of the Winter Range shoots, this California cowboy has donned a ‘Montana pinch’ hat, bib front shirt, galluses, and an original pair of circa 1890s wooly shotgun chaps, along with his square-toed boots, California-pattern spurs, wild rag, and Colt Peacemaker and frontier-era gunleather.
    • It helped to hide the suspenders, or galluses, which held up the trousers.
    • The Scots word for braces, straps supporting trousers from the shoulders, is sometimes spelt ‘galluses’ and is a corruption of the term ‘gallows’, the apparatus for capital punishment by hanging.
    • By that time, he had gotten to be very stout and usually wore galluses, but in addressing at hotel at the banquet, he and his wife seemed to be in a hurry and he left off his galluses.
    • Their hats should be creased fore and aft like a fedora, and I don't like exposed galluses.

Origin

Mid 19th century: plural of gallus, variant of gallows.

 
 
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