Pair

Pair

The word pair, derived via the French words pair/paire from the Latin par 'equal', can refer to:

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Famous quotes containing the word pair:

    Auld Noah was at hame wi’ them a’,
    The lion and the lamb,
    Pair by pair they entered the Ark
    And he took them as they cam’.
    Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)

    I well recall my horror when I heard for the first time, of a journalist who had laid in a pair of what were then called bicycle pants and taken to golf; it was as if I had encountered a studhorse with his hair done up in frizzes, and pink bowknots peeking out of them. It seemed, in some vague way, ignominious, and even a bit indelicate.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “You know,” said the Finn, “I got a pair of shoes older than you are.”
    William Gibson (b. 1948)