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nonsuch
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Nonsuch (styled as NONSVCH. ) is the twelfth studio album by the English band XTC , released on 27 April 1992. In a 1992 MTV interview, Andy Partridge said that he had selected the name of the album after encountering a drawing of Nonsuch Palace and, thinking ...
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n. model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal [syn: ideal , paragon , nonpareil , saint , apotheosis , nonesuch ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, nonesuch "unmatched or unrivaled thing," from none + such . As a type of decorated 16c. or 17c. chest, it is in reference to Nonesuch Palace , in Surrey, which supposedly is represented in the designs.
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n. (alternative spelling of nonesuch English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Nonsuch \Non"such\, n. See Nonesuch .
Usage examples of nonsuch.
By the summer of 1660 I had owned Nonsuch Books for some eighteen years.
The bookshop itself, with its copiously furnished shelves on the ground floor and its cramped lodgings one twist of a turnpike stair above those, had resided on London Bridgeand in a corner of Nonsuch House, the most handsome of its buildingsfor much longer: almost forty years.
And so on that momentous day I became proprietor of Nonsuch Books, where I have lived ever since in the disorder of several thousand morocco- and buckram-bound companions.
I lived alone except for my apprentice, Tom Monk, who was confined after the conclusion of business hours to the top floor of Nonsuch House, where he ate and slept in a chamber that was not much bigger than a cubbyhole.
Soon I would see the golden cupolas and brass weathercocks of Nonsuch House rising into the smoke-filled London sky.
The nearest receiving station to Nonsuch House was in Tower Street, near Botolph Lane.
I scurried beneath in the nick of time, grateful once again to see the black-and-white hulk of Nonsuch House rising against the sky to meet me.
From Nonsuch House it would take me some twenty minutes to reach Little Britain, which was to be the first of my stops this morning.
The journey back to Nonsuch House was, in the event, without incident.
Emerging on the other side, legs trembling, I disembarked to find a light burning in my corner of Nonsuch House.
And so I had returned to Nonsuch House that evening with only a vague clue as to when Sir Ambrose might have encrypted the verse.
It was the evening following my trip to Pulteney House, and for the second night in a row I was leaving Tom Monk alone in Nonsuch House.
Later I would wonder what might have happened if I had hired a hack and arrived back at Nonsuch House five minutes earlier.
Beyond, the green door to Nonsuch Books stood partly open and was hanging lopsidedly in its frame.
They paid us a visit only days after a pregnant woman had arrived in Nonsuch Books following what she said was an arduous journey by barge from Oxford.