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Eclat

noun

Enthusiastic approval. Synonyms: acclaim, acclamation, plaudit, plaudits. "He acknowledged the plaudits of the crowd" , "They gave him more eclat than he really deserved"

Ceremonial elegance and splendor. Synonym: pomp.

Brilliant or conspicuous success or effect.

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... with a free hand, to the churches and monasteries, the wealth which he had brought with him. A great assembly gathered to celebrate with him the Easter feast at the abbey of Fecamp. His presence was sought to add eclat to the dedication of new churches. But the event of the greatest importance which occurred during this visit to the duchy was the falling vacant of the primacy of Normandy by the death of Maurilius, Archbishop of Rouen. The universal choice ...

— The History of England From the Norman Conquest - to the Death of John (1066-1216) • George Burton Adams

... feet high and three hundred feet round at the base. Burrows are found all over Exmoor. 'The eye of reflection sees stand uninterrupted a number of simple sepulchres of departed souls.... A morsel of earth now damps in silence the eclat of noisy warriors, and the green turf serves as a ...

— Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts • Rosalind Northcote

... working late. She had promised to get out a long and intricate bill for Max Baum, who travels for Kuhn and Klingman, so that he might take the nine o'clock evening train. The irrepressible Max had departed with much eclat and clatter, and Pearlie was preparing to go home when ...

— Stories from Everybody's Magazine • 1910 issues of Everybody's Magazine

... with real genius and performed with prodigious eclat by Madame Viardot, and re-orchestrated by myself, was one of the strongest reasons for the success of the famous performances at the Theatre-Lyrique. But it is well understood that it could not properly find a place in an edition where the ...

— Musical Memories • Camille Saint-Saens

... par l'etendue et la population de ses etats, etoit plus puissant que beaucoup de rois, pouvoit jouer dans la coalition un role important. Il affecta de se montrer en scene un des premiers; et pour le faire avec eclat, il donna dans Lille en 1453 une fete splendide et pompeuse, ou plutot un grand spectacle a machines, fort bizarre dans son ensemble, fort disparate dans la multitude de ses parties, mais le plus etonnant de ceux de ce genre que nous ait transmis ...

— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, - and Discoveries of The English Nation, Volume 10 - Asia, Part III • Richard Hakluyt

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