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The phrase "pay a call" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to denote that someone visited someone else, usually in a friendly or formal manner. Example: We decided to pay a call to our grandmother today to check on her.
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And maybe those kids will decide to pay a call on her.
As Gillingham discovered on Saturday, it was not the best time to pay a call.
A few weeks later, Carol and I decided to pay a call at the Stockbridge, Massachusetts, cemetery.
The US President will also "pay a call" on the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, likely to be in his House of Commons office.
"Mr. Fuller and I are going to pay a call now, but when we come back, I want to give you some things for your children".
Two or three times each summer, I pay a call on my own future retirement home, at the Brooklin, Maine, Cemetery.
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A decade ago, in Boston for her 35th birthday, she paid a call on a body-modification artist.
In 1947 the Duke and Duchess of Windsor paid a call.
Nonetheless, Mrs. Baldrige proclaimed herself pleased with her successor, and still pleased Mr. Bernard paid a call.
You also concluded that your irascible neighbor had paid a call, in feline form.
Mrs. Clinton was one of a line of politicians who paid a call on the Hikinds.
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