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Eclat

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E`clat´
n.1.Brilliancy of success or effort; splendor; brilliant show; striking effect; glory; renown.
2.Demonstration of admiration and approbation; applause.
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Noun1.Eclateclat - enthusiastic approval; "the book met with modest acclaim"; "he acknowledged the plaudits of the crowd"; "they gave him more eclat than he really deserved"
acclaim, acclamation, plaudit, plaudits
commendation, approval - a message expressing a favorable opinion; "words of approval seldom passed his lips"
2.eclat - ceremonial elegance and splendor; "entered with much eclat in a coach drawn by eight white horses"
pomp
elegance - a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste; "she conveys an aura of elegance and gentility"
3.eclat - brilliant or conspicuous success or effect; "the eclat of a great achievement"
grandeur, magnificence, splendor, splendour, brilliance, grandness - the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand; "for magnificence and personal service there is the Queen's hotel"; "his `Hamlet' lacks the brilliance that one expects"; "it is the university that gives the scene its stately splendor"; "an imaginative mix of old-fashioned grandeur and colorful art"; "advertisers capitalize on the grandness and elegance it brings to their products"


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Having obtained the two Hundred Pounds, we instantly left the Town, leaving our Manager and his Wife to act MACBETH by themselves, and took the road to Sterling, where we spent our little fortune with great ECLAT.
Love and Friendship by Austen, Jane View in context
The distressing explanation she had to make to Harriet, and all that poor Harriet would be suffering, with the awkwardness of future meetings, the difficulties of continuing or discontinuing the acquaintance, of subduing feelings, concealing resentment, and avoiding eclat, were enough to occupy her in most unmirthful reflections some time longer, and she went to bed at last with nothing settled but the conviction of her having blundered most dreadfully.
Emma by Austen, Jane View in context
His fearless deportment, his words, so firm, yet dignified, the shades which by one word he had evoked, recalled to her the past in all its intoxication of poetry and romance, youth, beauty, the eclat of love at twenty years of age, the bloody death of Buckingham, the only man whom she had ever really loved, and the heroism of those obscure champions who had saved her from the double hatred of Richelieu and the king.
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