nonpareil UK /nɒnpəˈɹeɪ(l)/US /ˌnɑnpəˈɹɛl/noun 10adjective 1forms 3 noun10 •A person or thing that has no equal; a paragon.My lord and master loves you. O, such love / Could be but recompens'd though you were crown'd / The nonpareil of beauty! — 1601 •(US) A small pellet of white or coloured sugar used as decoration on baked goods and candy. •(US) A small, flat chocolate drop covered with such pellets of sugar, similar to a comfit. •(historical) A size of type between ruby and emerald (or, in the United States, between agate and minion), standardized as 6-point; (countable) a slug of this size.A Handbook of Astronomy (cover, brown leather, detached, 5 plates, antique letterpress long primer, author’s footnotes nonpareil, marginal clues brevier, captions small pica). — 1922 •(US) A painted bunting (Passerina ciris), a brightly-coloured finch native to North America. •A caper (“pickled edible flower bud”) of the smallest size. •The blue underwing or Clifden nonpareil (Catocala fraxini), a species of moth distributed across the Palearctic; also (obsolete) any of a number of moths of other species. •(US, no longer used) Any of various types of small sweets. •(Australia, no longer used) In full nonpareil parrot: an eastern rosella, of species Platycercus eximius, a rosella (parrot) native to southeastern Australia. •(no longer used) In full nonpareil apple: an apple tasting both sweet and tart which ripens very late in the season; also, the tree producing this fruit. adjective1 •Unequalled, unrivalled; unique.[…]the series stars Samantha Morton as Margaret Wells, a London brothel owner; Ms. Brown Findlay as Charlotte, her older daughter and the city’s courtesan nonpareil; […] — 2017 formsnonpareils · more nonpareil · most nonpareil
