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单词 pair of knives
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pair of knives
c. pair of knives, a set of two knives, esp. as carried in one sheath. Obsolete.Davies and others following him have explained the term as = ‘a pair of scissors’, but this is apparently erroneous.
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pair of knives?1578
1302–3 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 504 In uno pare de Cultell. empt. pro Priore, 5s.]
?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 47 A payr of capped Sheffield kniuez hanging a to side.
1594 R. Barnfield Affectionate Shepheard ii. xvii. sig. Cij A paire of Kniues,..New Gloues to put vpon thy milk-white hand Ile giue thee.
1610 T. Cocks Diary 24 Nov. (1901) 112 Paide for a paire of knyves for my va[lentine]: 2s a stringe for them 10d.
a1639 T. Dekker et al. Witch of Edmonton (1658) ii. ii. 21 But see, the Bridegroom and Bride comes; the new pair of Sheffeild-Knives fitted both to one sheath.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xiii. 25 Half a dozen pair of Knifs.
1893 Notes & Queries 8th Ser. 4 17/2 At a meeting of the British Archæological Association, in 1860, was exhibited a pair of wedding knives in their embossed sheath of courbouilli.
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