English
galluses
Galluses comes from English gallows ‘suspenders, braces’.
- English1500–presentgallows‘suspenders, braces’
- Englishearliest quotation 1949gallusesrare plural of gallows
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- English1500–presentgallows‘suspenders, braces’
- Englishearliest quotation 1949gallusesrare plural of gallows
Earliest quotation: 1949, Dorothy M. Johnson, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; in Indian Country: “He put his thumbs in his galluses and looked…”
Every English word from English gallows
Today it means
noun Braces, suspenders for trousers.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / English gallows / galluses