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

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

I answered, that I had nonesuch, and knew not any of our people who had; but any clothes I had that could gratify his highness were much at his service.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

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

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

From Ulysses by Joyce, James