two pair

noun

, Poker.

a set of two cards of the same denomination together with another matched set of different denomination from the first.

"Mr. Sawyer—Mr. Sawyer," screamed a voice from the two-pair landing.

These proved to be carts and horses on the road, which he saw from a two-pair-of-stairs window.

He took the oaths, shuddered, went home and threw himself in an agony out of a two-pair of stairs window!

When you was ill, who forgot the natral dignities of his station, and answered the two-pair bell?

But he managed to get out, and discovered the wretched woman in a chamber in 'the two-pair back.'

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