nonesuch

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But Haushofer's geopolitics became one of history's greatest hoaxes�a vast nonesuch of propaganda for luring Germans to the idea of world domination.

From Time Magazine Archive

A Stuart face of nonesuch Charles, lank locks falling at its sides.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

Now comes the darling of the group, the heart's ease, the nonesuch, the Rose of Erin, the lovely, the indescribable Rosaleen Clancy.

From The Girl and the Kingdom Learning to Teach by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

He had the Lemals' pluck inside him though, for all his unhandy looks; and, of course, his mother thought him a nonesuch.

From The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

A fine fligarishon You made of it between you, you and Phœbe: And wasn’t she the high and mighty madam, The niffy-naffy don’t-come-nigh-me nonesuch?

From Krindlesyke by Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson