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PARAGON

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 756 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PAI-PAS
PARAGON , a
term
  for that which is a
model
  of excellence or
pattern
  of perfection, hence some person or thing which has no equal. The word was adopted from the O. Fr. paragon, Mod. paraggon, Ital. paragon and Span. paragon. The Spanish has usually been taken as the source, and the word explained as from the prepositional phrase Para con, in comparison with. But the word first appears in Italian, meaning a " touchstone. The Italian word may be connected with the Gr. lraparov&v, to sharpen by the use of a whetstone (alto' ). The
term
  has been used in several technical applications, e.g. in printing, of a large
style
  of type between "
great
  primer " and "
double
 
pica
 ," now usually called " two-line
long
  primer "; of a diamond weighing more than loo carats; and formerly of a fabric used for hangings in the 17th and 18th centuries.


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