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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 738 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NONPAREIL (Fr. non, and pareil, like,
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Lat.
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par)  , having no equal, unrivalled . Apart from its uses as a descriptive name for particularly
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fine kinds of
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fruit, &c., and of certain birds, moths and butterflies, the
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chief application of the word in
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English is, in
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printing, to a
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size of type between "
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emerald " and "
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ruby," in the
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United States of
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America between
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minion " and "
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agate " (see
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TYPOGRAPHY) .

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