eclat

This was one of his regularly misfiring tricks, but today, miracle of miracles, he performed it with such adroitness and eclat that he couldn't think of any reason not to go on living.

From BBC ● May 23, 2020

There was great rejoicing over the event at Scranton, Pennsylvania, where cannon, bells and whistles of locomotives were employed to give eclat to the occasion.

From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2019

Dolley’s eclat served Madison well; he may have been a raconteur at his own dinner table, but social skills eluded him outside the doors of Montpelier or the White House.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2015

On its quiet campus, one of whose buildings is the College's original Main Hall, the celebration took place last week with fitting eclat.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the first place, she accompanied her friends on a short visit to Europe, and returning, entered society at New Orleans with some eclat.

From The Haunted Homestead A Novel by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

He was soigné, to use one of his favorite words, and he had éclat, to use another.

From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2022

She finds the vulnerable beauty of “Will He Like Me?,” she blows the lid off “Vanilla Ice Cream” and she handles the tricky letter-writing ditty “Dear Friend” with éclat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2020

Nonetheless, France did manage a few moments of éclat et élan in that semifinal, and none were more breathtaking than Kylian Mbappé’s backheel.

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2018

Ross was present to add shy éclat to the opening weekend.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 27, 2013

Nay, you often said I was too anxious for distinction, for any kind of éclat, to marry only for love.

From Jasper Lyle by Harriet Ward