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Definition of Nonsuches
1. nonsuch [n] - See also: nonsuch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonsuches
Literary usage of Nonsuches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Cookery, in All Its Branches: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice by Eliza Acton (1858)
"When the fruit is scarce, the marmalade (which ought to be very white) may be
made in part or entirely with nonsuches. The better to preserve their form, ..."
2. Modern Cookery, in All Its Branches: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice by Eliza Acton (1845)
"Boil together for fifteen minutes a pound of well-refined sugar and half a pint
of water; then add a couple of pounds of nonsuches, or of any other ..."
3. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1845)
"Some excellent nonsuches have been received, which sell well. Of Pears there is
now scarcely any sorts remaining, except baking ; there are some few Easter ..."
4. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1853)
"... or as we should now say paragons, uniques, nonpareil*, or nonsuches). lie also
speaks in particular commendation of pearls shaped like alabaster unguent ..."
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