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