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Pair of stairs

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a set or flight of stairs. - pair, in this phrase, having its old meaning of a set. See Pair, n., 1.

See also: Stair


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It is number 92, up four pair of stairs," Jos said, perhaps not very willing to ascend the steps again; but he placed himself in the window of his drawing-room, which commands the place on which the Elephant stands, and saw the pair marching through the market.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
It was indeed a moveable pair of stairs, the lowest end placed at ten feet distance from the wall of the chamber.
Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context
You remember the beaver which a naturalist tells us "busied himself as earnestly in constructing a dam in a room up three pair of stairs in London as if he had been laying his foundation in a lake in Upper Canada.
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context
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