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nonpareil

 

nonpareil ("non'-peh-REL" or [rarely] "non'-peh-REY") n.

origin: from Middle English "nonparaille",
from Middle French "nonpareil",
from "non-" + "pareil", meaning "equal"
first published use in English: 1593


1. An individual of unequaled excellence, a paragon.

" VIOLA: ... such love
Could be but recompensed though you were crowned
The nonpareil of beauty!
OLIVIA: How does he love me?
VIOLA: With adorations, fertile tears,
With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire."
--William Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will"




2a. A small flat disk of chocolate covered with white sugar pellets

2b. Sugar in small pellets of various colors