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Nonpareil

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Nonparéil. n.s. [non and pareil, French.]

  1. Excellence unequalled.

    My lord and master loves you: O such love
    Could be but recompens'd tho' you were crown'd
    The nonpareil of beauty.     Shakes. Twelfth Night.

  2. A kind of apple.

  3. Printers letter of a small size, on which small Bibles and Common Prayers are printed.

Sources: Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (36)

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