nonpareil
( non-puh-rel )
ⓝⓞⓤⓝ / ⓐⓓⓙⓔⓒⓣⓘⓥⓔ
: a person or thing having no equal.
: a small pellet of colored sugar for decorating candy, cake, and cookies.
: a flat, round, bite-sized piece of chocolate covered with this sugar.
painted bunting.: Printing. a. a 6-point type. b. a slug occupying 6 points of space between lines.
: having no equal; peerless.
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• The dandelion in full flower, a little sun bristling with sun-rays on the green earth, is a nonpareil, a non-such. Foolish, foolish, foolish to compare it to anything else on earth.
• D. H. Lawrence, "Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine," Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays, 1925
"He was as rascally a man as ever I met in my life," Grandfather said, "and as great a genius in his own line. A virtuoso, a master, a nonpareil. Never shall I set eyes on his like again."
Samuel Hopkins Adams, "The Saga of Four-Skate Pilkington," Grandfather Stories, 1955
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