[Grammar] Plural for "carriage and pair"

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CallMeTak

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What is the right plural form for "carriage and pair"? Some carriages and pairs? When there are three sets of them, do you call them "three carriages and pairs"?
 

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I am not sure why you are pairing "carriage" and "pair." But, yes, that is the plural of those words. "Pair" can also be plural. My full house beat his two pair.
 

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Three carriages and pairs.
 
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