one-gallused

alternative one-gallus

1. USdatednot comparableregionalWearing only one gallus or suspender strap; hence, rustic and simple.

   There they are a simple, orderly, plain, well-disciplined people: here in Mississippi they are somewhat wild, woolly, one-gallused and impatient.

   1896, Insurance Herald, volume 13, number 13

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   Because even if every other one-gallused share-cropper in the county whose sole cash value was the October or November sale of the single bale of cotton which was his tithe of this year’s work, withdrew his balance also, it would not be enough.

   1957, William Faulkner, chapter 17, in The Town, pages 278-279