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Nonpareil

noun
1.
Model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal.  Synonyms: apotheosis, ideal, nonesuch, nonsuch, paragon, saint.
2.
Colored beads of sugar used as a topping on e.g. candies and cookies.
3.
A flat disk of chocolate covered with beads of colored sugar.
adjective
1.
Eminent beyond or above comparison.  Synonyms: matchless, one, one and only, peerless, unmatchable, unmatched, unrivaled, unrivalled.  "The team's nonpareil center fielder" , "She's one girl in a million" , "The one and only Muhammad Ali" , "A peerless scholar" , "Infamy unmatched in the Western world" , "Wrote with unmatchable clarity" , "Unrivaled mastery of her art"





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"Nonpareil" Quotes from Famous Books



... for example, where under the initiative the ballot which I hold in my hand was submitted to the people at the recent election. This ballot is 7 feet long and 14 inches wide, and it is crowded with reading matter set in nonpareil type. Upon this ballot there are submitted for the consideration of the people six legislative propositions. Four of them are short and comparatively simple. But here is one referring to the people a law ...
— Elements of Debating • Leverett S. Lyon
... as I. Burn but his books. He has brave[427-18] utensils,—for so he calls them,— Which, when he has a house, he'll deck't withal: And that most deeply to consider is The beauty of his daughter; he himself Calls her a nonpareil: I ne'er saw woman, But only Sycorax my dam and she; But she as far surpasseth ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 • Charles H. Sylvester
... Welsh said gallantly. "I'll put you wise. An 'Only' is a nonpareil, the feller that does one kind of a turn better'n any other ...
— Moon-Face and Other Stories • Jack London
... encouraging. Two nonpareil columns had to be filled, and I was getting along. Presently, when things began to look dismal again, a desperado killed a man in a saloon and joy returned once more. I never was so glad over any mere trifle before in my life. I said to ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... and sophisticated man of the world. He informed the clerk that he would remain three or four days, inquired concerning the sailing of European steamships, and sank into the blissful inanition of the nonpareil hotel with the contented air of a traveller ...
— The Voice of the City • O. Henry


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