Meaning of pigeon pair | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A pair of twins, one male and one female.
2. Two siblings, one male and one female.

Examples

““He has two kiddies, a pigeon pair.””

“Oh, please not twins! Just a pigeon-pair, a son and then a daughter.”

“Their first child, a son, was Albert Lewis, born 1893, and he became known to all of us who can remember this wonderful man, as Lew Davey. The second child was a daughter, Cora Annie, born 1895. […] There were two other children (both stillborn) and, to quote Lew, “It is sad to remember that what should have been a family of four, ended up a “pigeon pair”.”

““I 'ave a wife and pigeon pair,” he said. “What's a pigeon pair?” I asked him. “Don'cher know a pigeon pair? That's one of each. A pigeon pair, we calls it at 'ome.”

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