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unique
c.1600, "single, solitary," from Fr.
unique
, from L.
unicus
"single, sole," from
unus
"one" (see
one
). Meaning "forming the only one of its kind" is attested from 1610s; erroneous sense of "remarkable, uncommon" is attested from mid-19c.
