"pigeon pair" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From a folk belief that pigeons raise two eggs at the same time, a male and a female.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
        "A pair of twins, one male and one female."
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          "female",
          "female"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, Colleen McCullough, Bittersweet, page 71:",
          "text": "Oh, please not twins! Just a pigeon-pair, a son and then a daughter.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Margaret Dwyer, Jewels Along The Newell, page 62:",
          "text": "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”.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Tom Treanor, One Damn Thing After Another:",
          "text": "“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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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Two siblings, one male and one female."
      ],
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        [
          "sibling",
          "sibling"
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          "male",
          "male"
        ],
        [
          "female",
          "female"
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  "word": "pigeon pair"
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  "etymology_text": "From a folk belief that pigeons raise two eggs at the same time, a male and a female.",
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        "plural"
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "A pair of twins, one male and one female."
      ],
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          "male",
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        ],
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          "ref": "2014, Colleen McCullough, Bittersweet, page 71:",
          "text": "Oh, please not twins! Just a pigeon-pair, a son and then a daughter.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Margaret Dwyer, Jewels Along The Newell, page 62:",
          "text": "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”.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2018, Tom Treanor, One Damn Thing After Another:",
          "text": "“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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        "Two siblings, one male and one female."
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