suspender
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Badu wore a black silk duchess gown with white satin buttons, sportcoat and suspender skirt.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2021
He had looped the drawstring of his sweatpants around the back of his head like a suspender.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2019
He pops open the flip phone stored in the shirt pocket between his suspender straps and calls the number for a voicemail set up specifically for this purpose.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2015
Now if they can hold on to Somalia and bring Ethiopia into their orbit, they will have hooked a suspender onto the belt.
From Time Magazine Archive
His costume was high-topped shoes and old-time britches held up by one suspender.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
Its Intel profits alone would make Gordon Gekko hang up his suspenders.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
Presiding over the festivities was Frank Seddio, the club’s 79-year-old chairman, who was wearing suspenders and a monogrammed dress shirt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
Bob Hoyt, who was wearing a leather chauffeur hat and yellow suspenders that look liked measuring tape, served in the Navy from 1966 to 1970.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2025
A family of boys in suspenders appears; behind them are sandbags displaying paper targets with human outlines.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2024
On the floor there was a jumble of satin shoes, debutante’s handbags, belts studded with fake stones, suspenders, and even the shining sword of a military cadet.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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