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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.
It was indeed a moveable pair of stairs, the lowest end placed at ten feet distance from the wall of the chamber.
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.
 
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