a brace of dogs
A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally (e.g., a brace of conies) and then other things, but rarely human persons. (In British use (as plural), this is a particularly common reference to game birds.)
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wiktionary-attested
- Also used for
- birds, ducks, greyhounds, dryads, raccoons