An A l; a person of thing of unusual merit. “A” all alone, with no one who can follow, nemo proximus aut secundus.
Chaucer calls Cresseide “the floure and A-per-se of Troi and Greek.”
“London, thou art of townës A-per-se.”—Lansdowne MSS.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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