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Definition of Nonesuches
1. nonesuch [n] - See also: nonesuch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonesuches
Literary usage of Nonesuches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life in Spain: Past and Present by Walter Thornbury (1860)
"... fool or an artificial fool; then he told the square of laughing faces, in
answer to some observation, that he was one of the nonesuches—there were only ..."
2. Friends on the Shelf by Bradford Torrey (1906)
"Thoreau was a wild apple, and would have been proud of the name, suggestive of
that "tang and smack" which he so feelingly celebrated. "nonesuches" and ..."
3. Transactions of the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society by Wisconsin State Horticultural Society (1884)
"... no'more Presidents, Governors, or titled dignitaries; no more Monarchs, Kings
or Princes; no more Mammoths, Giants, or Tom Thumbs; no more nonesuches, ..."
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