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No, a brace in such a context means a pair , not a collection . By the way, the plural (in this sense of the word) is also brace .
- No, a brace in such a context means a pair , not a collection .
- By the way, the plural (in this sense of the word) is also brace .
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No, a brace in such a context means a pair, not a collection.
By the way, the plural (in this sense of the word) is also brace.
By the way, the plural (in this sense of the word) is also brace.
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In my view, this would depend on the context. For example, if a man had an extensive firearms collection, consisting of modern arms (late 19th century and later) only, but had a set of fine, museum quality, muzzle-loading dueling pistols, then, when showing off his collection, he might go to the moderns arms first, and save the dueling pistols for last, saying: "Well, that was my modern arms col
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Anonymousand this is my antique collection: a brace of dueling pistols. These are one-of-a-kind, museum quality."I think I'd call the dueling pistols the antique part of the collection, rather than a collection in its own right. I'd have to have more than two of something before I started calling it a collection.
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