eclat
pronunciation
How to pronounce eclat in British English:
UK [eɪ'kla:]
How to pronounce eclat in American English:
US [eɪ'kla]
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- Noun:
- enthusiastic approval
- ceremonial elegance and splendor
- brilliant or conspicuous success or effect
Word Origin
- éclat
- éclat: see slat
- eclat (n.)
- 1670s, "showy brilliance," from French éclat "splinter, fragment" (12c.), also "flash of brilliance," from eclater "burst out; shine brilliantly; splinter, fly to fragments," from Old French esclater "smash, shatter into pieces," which is of uncertain origin, perhaps from a Germanic word related to slit (v.) and to Old High German skleizen "tear to pieces; to split, cleave." Extended sense of "conspicuous success" is first recorded in English in 1741.
Example
- 1. He is a diplomat of great eclat .
- 2. Her latest novel was received with great eclat .
- 3. We are all fiercely warned away from ysl 's touche eclat , which is too drying to wear on a flight .
- 4. Around me I hear that eclat of the world , politics , produce .