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duplet noun [ ˈdjuːplɪt ]

• a set of two things.
Origin: mid 17th century (as a dicing term in the sense of doublets (see doublet): from Latin duplus ‘duple’, on the pattern of doublet . Current senses date from the 1920s.


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