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Definition of Nonpareils
1. nonpareil [n] - See also: nonpareil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonpareils
Literary usage of Nonpareils
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Confectioner, Pastry-cook, and Baker: Plain and Practical by Eleanor Parkinson (1844)
"nonpareils.—Pound some loaf sugar, and sift it through a fine wire sieve; ...
To colour nonpareils or Comfits.—Put some of your comfits or nonpareils into ..."
2. Cocoa and Chocolate: A Short History of Their Production and Use, with Full by Walter Baker & Company, James McKellar Bugbee (1886)
"Chocolate Drops, with nonpareils. Warm some sweet chocolate by pounding it in a
hot iron mortar; when it is reduced to a malleable paste make it into balls, ..."
3. The Italian Confectioner: Or, Complete Economy of Desserts, Containing the by William Alexis Jarrin (1829)
"Chocolate Drops, with nonpareils. Take a quantity of chocolate, warm a small
cast-iron or metal mortar, and pound your chocolate in it till it becomes ..."
4. The Cook's Own Book: Being a Complete Culinary Encyclopedia... With Numerous by N. K. M. Lee (1832)
"... dip rhem one by one m sugar prepared au cassé, and roll them in white, or any
other colored nonpareils, and dry them in a stove, or gentle oven. ..."
5. A Dictionary of the Art of Printing by William Savage (1841)
"Pica=2 nonpareils. English=2 Emeralds. Great Primer=2 Bourgeois, also=4 Diamonds
... Two Line Pica=2 Picas, also = 4 nonpareils. Two Line English=2 English, ..."
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