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par excellence

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someone/something par excellence
someone or something par excellence is the best or most extreme example of its type. China is the destination par excellence for the young and trendy these days.
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To this class, all that is AWFUL is bad, in fact it is THE evil par excellence.
The Mediterranean, the blue sea par excellence, "the great sea" of the Hebrews, "the sea" of the Greeks, the "mare nostrum" of the Romans, bordered by orange-trees, aloes, cacti, and sea-pines; embalmed with the perfume of the myrtle, surrounded by rude mountains, saturated with pure and transparent air, but incessantly worked by underground fires; a perfect battlefield in which Neptune and Pluto still dispute the empire of the world!
Penetrating through a portal by no means lofty into the precincts of the House which is THE House, PAR EXCELLENCE in the minds of many millions of men, he was met at last by the volatile and revolutionary Toodles.
 
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