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éclat

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é·clat  (-klä, klä)
n.
1. Great brilliance, as of performance or achievement.
2. Conspicuous success.
3. Great acclamation or applause.
4. Archaic Notoriety; scandal.

[French, brilliance, from Old French esclat, splinter, from esclater, to burst out, splinter, probably of Germanic origin.]

éclat [eɪˈklɑː (French) ekla]
n
1. brilliant or conspicuous success, effect, etc.
2. showy display; ostentation
3. social distinction
4. approval; acclaim; applause
[from French, from éclater to burst; related to Old French esclater to splinter, perhaps of Germanic origin; compare slit]
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éclat [ˈeɪklɑː] Nbrillo m; (= success) → éxito m brillante
with great éclatbrillantemente


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In surgery, having the least experience, and it being a business that spoke directly to the senses, he was most apt to distrust his own powers; but he had applied oils to several burns, cut round the roots of sundry defective teeth, and sewed up the wounds of numberless wood choppers, with considerable éclat, when an unfortunate jobber suffered a fracture of his leg by the tree that he had been felling.
 
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