Show the word pair the word pair meaning a set not limited to two dates from 1300 when it signified a set of separate things or parts forming a collective whole orl originally a pair of drawers bant a chest of drawers and not an undergarment a pair of beads moans means a chaplet or string of beads the phrase pair of stairs signifying a flight of stairs dates from pals graves raves time 1530 one pair of stairs meant up one flight two pair of stairs up two flights three pair of stairs up three flights tile the phrase a pair of organs is an elizabethan use first applied to the virginal referring to its set of double keys or keyboards it dates from s literary digest |