Definition: nonesuch

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

nonesuch
     n : model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no
         equal [syn: ideal, paragon, nonpareil, saint, apotheosis,
          nonsuch]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Nonesuch \None"such`\, n.
   A person or thing of a sort that there is no other such;
   something extraordinary; a thing that has not its equal. It
   is given as a name to various objects, as to a choice variety
   of apple, a species of medic (Medicago lupulina), a variety
   of pottery clay, etc.