Tell me more ×  I came across sui generis in the following
paragraph of today’s New York Times (April 27) Restaurant Review
section headlined "Chef’s table at Brooklyn Fair."  César
Ramirez's restaurant in downtown Brooklyn is a kind of sui
generis exercise in personal expression, and one of the more
extraordinary restaurants in New York City.  As I was unfamiliar
with the expression, "sui generic," I consulted two English
Japanese dictionaries (Japanese publications) at hand; both of
which gave the meaning of “unique, of its own kind,” by defining
the word as an adjective to be placed after the noun as
postposition.  However, Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary
defines it simply as an adjective. Which is right? Is it right
to place "sui generis" in the way of "sui generis exercise"?
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down vote accepted  I've seen it both before and after the noun.
Here are two examples of its usage I found from a Google search:
"sui generis works like Mary Chest