OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 31485

nonpareil

/nɒnpəˈɹeɪ(l)/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
incomparable • sin par • sin paralelo
Unequalled, unrivalled; unique.
A veritable artist, possessed of a deftness nonpareil with cotton swab and evacuation-hypo, the medical attaché is known among the shrinking upper classes of petro-Arab nations as…
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 w…
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📚 noun • entry_id 31486

nonpareil

/nɒnpəˈɹeɪ(l)/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
nompareille
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).
I believe that letters which are less than a millimetre and a half (1/17 inch) high, will finally prove injurious to the eye. How little attention has hitherto been paid to this im…
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