0 better than any other:
her nonpareil beauty
[ after noun ] He was the teacher nonpareil.
1 a person or thing that is better than any other:
She was, he was convinced, the nonpareil among women.
2 a piece of chocolate covered in sprinkles (= very small pieces of coloured sugar )
3 small hard pieces of coloured sugar used to decorate cakes, biscuits, sweets, etc.
I think that many of his readers would be prepared to bear witness to the sense that somewhere in there among the changing shapes is the usual nonpareil.
The sprinkle-type of "drage" is like a large nonpareil with a metallic coating of silver, gold, copper, or bronze.
Nonpareil post office ran from 1882 to 1884.
The name comes from the traditional naming system for type sizes, in which minion is between nonpareil and brevier.
His printing office was well supplied with good type in all sizes, from nonpareil to great primer, and he had a fine range of initial letters, ornaments and borders.
