eclat
Example Sentences
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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
The very first scene bursts on the playgoer with somber eclat.
From Time Magazine Archive
But I presume you reserve the brilliancy of an action of that eclat, for objects better worth your while to dazzle by a stroke of that grand description?
From The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny
Vocabulary lists containing eclat
English Words Derived from French, List 9
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Eight Cousins
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The Last of the Mohicans
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