[ noun ] model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal <noun.person>
Nonesuch \None"such`\, n. A person or thing of a sort that there is no other such; something extraordinary; a thing that has not its equal. It is given as a name to various objects, as to a choice variety of apple, a species of medic ({Medicago lupulina}), a variety of pottery clay, etc.