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Why do they call it a pair of underwear when it's just one

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“Pair,” from the Latin, means two like things. And pants (pantaloons) were originally two like things. You put them on one leg at a time because they actually came in two pieces. ... From the beginning, about the 16th Century, pants have been referred to as a pair

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