nonpareil

IPA: nɑnpˈɑrˈiɫ

(countable) A person or thing that has no equal; a paragon.
(countable, biology)
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.
(chiefly Australia, archaic) In full nonpareil parrot: the eastern rosella (Platycercus eximius), a species of rosella (parrot) native to southeastern Australia.
(chiefly US) The painted bunting (Passerina ciris), a brightly-coloured finch native to North America.
(archaic) In full nonpareil apple: a variety of apple tasting both sweet and tart which ripens very late in the season; also, the tree producing this fruit.
(countable, chiefly US, cooking)
(archaic) Any of various types of small sweets.
(by extension, dated) A small pellet of white or coloured sugar used as decoration on baked goods and candy.
(by extension) A small, flat chocolate drop covered with such pellets of sugar, similar to a comfit.
(by extension) A caper (“pickled edible flower bud”) of the smallest size.
(uncountable, typography, chiefly historical) The 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.

Examples of "nonpareil" in Sentences

Love it.staceyc• Twitter is the crystal meth of social notworking, the time-vampire nonpareil.
Smith had acknowledged this in his "True Relation," where he referred to her as the "nonpareil" of
Capers range from about the size of petite green peas - called "nonpareil," a product of France - to almost twice that size.
My greatest discovery on this front has been Vida Vida's stupendous leather weekend bag, aka the nonpareil of luggagery £195, www.vidavida.co.uk .
DadBoner, who is either a real person or a profound literary construction, the despondent American post-marriage male persona nonpareil, Homer Simpson's Kafkaesque better.
In fact, as other articles pointed out, our -- as no fitting word has been found for it, let's go with -- withdrawal was a magnificent feat of reverse engineering, worthy of a force that was a nonpareil on the planet.
In the week a new, bold young Masters champion has been anointed I am reminded of a piece I never tire of quoting by Alistair Cooke in these very pages half a century ago, about another Bobby, another courtly nonpareil, Bobby Jones, who inspired the very foundation of the Masters at Augusta in 1934.