noun, adjective
A person or thing without equal, peerless; a small pellet of sugar used for decorating cookies or candy; a bite-sized chocolate covered with these pellets.
I see you what you are: you are too proud; But, if you were the devil, you are fair. My lord and master loves you: O! such love Could be but recompensed, though you were crowned The nonpareil of beauty.
—William Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1601)