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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A bet is synonymous with a wager, but what does it mean in New York?

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.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843|Various
When you was ill, who forgot the nat'ral dignities of his station, and answered the two-pair bell?
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXIV, May 1852, Vol. IV|Various
But he managed to get out, and discovered the wretched woman in a chamber in 'the two-pair back.'
Historical Mysteries|Andrew Lang

When you was ill, who forgot the natral dignities of his station, and answered the two-pair bell?
Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush|William Makepeace Thackeray