galluses in English
noun
1
suspenders for 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.
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1. Dolan offers the examples of Bellowses for bellows and galluses for gallus, an obsolete form of the word gallows meaning 'braces.' Taniguchi, on the other hand, cites newses as a plural for news (1972: 10)