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

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

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

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

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