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pairs

/pɛɹz/ noun A2
  1. Synonym of pelmanism (“memory card game”).
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By this time she had found her way into a tidy little room with a table in the window, and on it (as she had hoped) a fan and two or three pairs of tiny white kid gloves: she took up the fan and a pair of the gloves, and was just going to leave the room, when her eye fell upon a little bottle that stood near the looking-glass.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 23 · B2
When you look after three pairs of twins you naturally get a lot of experience.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 136 · C1
Minnie May did not take kindly to the ipecac but Anne had not brought up three pairs of twins for nothing.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 138 · C1
Hammond had three pairs of twins after all.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 139 · C1

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