twosome

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From Middle English twosome, equivalent to two + -some. Cognate with Scots twasome, twaesome (“twosome”).

Anyway, after one or two long distance exchanges she drops out a note arranging a twosome in the palace gardens by moonlight. — Torchy and Vee, Sewell Ford
While Tam gave the computer a voice ID, I stood to the side readying the surprise I planned for Noda's security twosome. — The Samurai Strategy, Thomas Hoover
Indeed, Miss Beekman's friend, Prof. Abelard Samothrace, of Columbia University, probably would have admitted that just as the two had lived in the same house--albeit at different levels--on Fifth Avenue, so their forebears at some prehistoric period had, likely as not, occupied the same cave and had in company waded on frosty mornings the ice-skimmed swamps of Mittel Europa in pursuit of the cave bear, the mastodon and the woolly rhinoceros, and for afternoon relaxation had made up twosomes for hunting wives with stone clubs instead of mashies in their hairy prehensile hands. — By Advice of Counsel, Arthur Cheney Train

couple, pair, twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet, distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad

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