Nonpareil, one who has no equal, a paragon: “he himself calls her a n.” Tp. III, 2, 108. “though you were crowned the n. of beauty,” Tw. I, 5, 273. “if thou didst it, thou art the n.” Mcb. III, 4, 19. “spake you of Caesar? how, the n.!” Ant. III, 2, 11. “my mother seemed the Dian of that time: so doth my wife the n. of this,” Cymb. II, 5, 8.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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