nonsuch
Britishnoun
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Doubtless you think she is a nonsuch, but I call your case one of lamentable self-pleasing.
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We had many kinds, from the sweet and pulpy nonsuch, to the small tight little pearmain and lemon pippin.
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Nay, not content with giving him the goods, many of the poor demented creatures actually paraded their folly at their doors in new deal packing-cases, flourishingly directed 'to sir harry scattercash, bart., nonsuch house, &c.
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He wanted, forsooth, to boast of a nonsuch!
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As his assistant in the silver-shop, Don Plat�n has a boy who is a nonsuch.
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