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suspenders
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context US English) A pair of straps crossing one's shoulders and extending down to one's trousers, where a clip or button arrangement allows them to affix to the trousers, ensuring that they will not fall off. (context British English) braces. 2 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"straps for holding up trousers, etc.," 1806, American English, plural agent noun from suspend (v.).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Suspenders ( American English , Canadian English ) or braces ( British English ) are fabric or leather straps worn over the shoulders to hold up trousers . The straps may be elasticated, either entirely or only at attachment ends, and most straps are of ...
Usage examples of suspenders.
Tearing myself away from the clouds which obviously had no school that day, I leapt to my feet, pulled my drumsticks out from under my suspenders, and loudly, emphatically, drummed out the time of the song.
Someone who looks like Forrest Atwater – slicked‑back blond hair, nonprescription redwood‑framed glasses, Armani suit with suspenders – is sitting with Caroline Baker, an investment banker at Drexel, maybe, and she doesn't look too good.
Even though he is probably uncomfortable at the table with us since he looks nothing like the other men in the room – his hair isn't slicked back, no suspenders, no horn‑rimmed glasses, the clothes black and ill‑fitting, no urge to light and suck on a cigar, probably unable to secure a table at Camols, his net worth a pittance – still, his behavior lacks warrant and he sits there as if hypnotized by the glistening piece of sushi and just as the table is about to finally ignore him, to look away and start eating, he sits up and loudly says, pointing an accusing finger at his plate, "It moved!
Charles Simpson – or someone who looks remarkably like him, slicked‑back hair, suspenders, Oliver Peoples glasses – shakes my hand, shouts "Hey, Williams" and tells me to meet a group of people with Alexandra Craig at Nell's around midnight.
Loosening my suspenders, ignoring beggars, beggars ignoring me, sweat-drenched, delirious, I find myself back downtown in Tower Records and I compose myself, muttering over and over to no one, "I've gotta return my videotapes, I've gotta return my videotapes,"
I snap one of his suspenders but there's no reaction, no movement, then I turn back to Libby.
I ask, undoing my Brooks Brothers suspenders while searching the refrigerator for a bottle of sauvignon blanc.
Tiffany is tied up with six pairs of Paul's suspenders on the other side of the bed, moaning with fear, totally immobilized by the monster of reality.
He was wearing suspenders, and Keller noticed that they had cats on them, different breeds of cats.
The last thing you expected to run into was a pair of suspenders with cats on them.
His suspenders had Roman coins on them, but the shop itself was exclusively devoted to stamps.
Consequently I inserted both drumsticks under the linen suspenders of my filthy knickers, filthy and frayed around the pockets because in those days there was no one to take care of me.
When he kept threatening to keel over, we tied him into position with a pair of suspenders taken from one of the wounded men.
As we counted up the score, he would sag on the borrowed suspenders, giving no sign of life except for the terrifying spasms of his Adam's apple.
While slipping into his clothes, adjusting the drum round his neck, stowing his drumsticks under his suspenders, Oskar carried on negotiations with his two gods Dionysus and Apollo.