nonesuch

American  

[nuhn-suhch] / ˈnʌnˌsʌtʃ /

Also nonsuch

noun

Older Use.

1. a person or thing without equal; paragon.

   Who can forget the title of the con artist's show from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: “The Thrilling Tragedy of the King's Cameleopard, or the Royal Nonesuch!!!”

   Synonyms:

   pattern, model, ideal, nonpareil

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nonesuch British  

/ ˈnʌnˌsʌtʃ /

noun

1. archaic a matchless person or thing; nonpareil

2. another name for black medick

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Etymology

Origin of nonesuch

First recorded in 1580–90; none ¹ + such

Example Sentences

But Haushofer's geopolitics became one of history's greatest hoaxes�a vast nonesuch of propaganda for luring Germans to the idea of world domination.

From Time Magazine Archive

A fine fligarishon You made of it between you, you and Phœbe: And wasn’t she the high and mighty madam, The niffy-naffy don’t-come-nigh-me nonesuch?

From Krindlesyke by Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson

A Stuart face of nonesuch Charles, lank locks falling at its sides.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

I answered, that I had nonesuch, and knew not any of our people who had; but any clothes I had that could gratify his highness were much at his service.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

He had the Lemals' pluck inside him though, for all his unhandy looks; and, of course, his mother thought him a nonesuch.

From The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir