two pair
- a set of two cards of the same denomination together with another matched set of different denomination from the first.
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When you was ill, who forgot the nat'ral dignities of his station, and answered the two-pair bell?
When you was ill, who forgot the natral dignities of his station, and answered the two-pair bell?
Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. YellowplushWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
But he managed to get out, and discovered the wretched woman in a chamber in 'the two-pair back.'
Historical MysteriesAndrew Lang
He took the oaths, shuddered, went home and threw himself in an agony out of a two-pair of stairs window!
Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. I (of 2)Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The two-pair back was his domain, and his territory was less adorned than crowded with the evidences of his taste and handiwork.