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Thread #170745   Message #4130457
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
30-Dec-21 - 02:02 PM
Thread Name: BS: A language question
Subject: RE: BS: A language question
"Braces" in the US means the metal contraptions that a dentist attaches in your mouth to straighten your teeth. Or it can be a metal support for a back or like leg-braces for polio victims.

I imagine you mean what we call "suspenders." (Which I'm told in other parts of the English speaking world has another meaning entirely.)