noun
1.
brilliance of success, reputation, etc.: the éclat of a great achievement.
2.
showy or elaborate display: a performance of great éclat.
3.
acclamation; acclaim.
Origin:
1665–75; < French: splinter, fragment, burst, flash, brilliance, Old French esclat, noun derivative of esclater to burst, break violently, probably < Old Low Franconian *slaitan to split, break (compare Old High German sleizan to tear), a causative of Germanic *slitan; see slit
1665–75; < French: splinter, fragment, burst, flash, brilliance, Old French esclat, noun derivative of esclater to burst, break violently, probably < Old Low Franconian *slaitan to split, break (compare Old High German sleizan to tear), a causative of Germanic *slitan; see slit
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| —n | |
| 1. | brilliant or conspicuous success, effect, etc |
| 2. | showy display; ostentation |
| 3. | social distinction |
| 4. | approval; acclaim; applause |
| [C17: from French, from éclater to burst; related to Old French esclater to splinter, perhaps of Germanic origin; compare | |
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Word Origin & History
eclat
1670s, "showy brilliance," from Fr. éclat "splinter, fragment" (12c.), also "flash of brilliance," from eclater "burst out, splinter," from O.Fr. esclater, of uncertain origin, perhaps from a W.Gmc. word related to slit or to O.H.G. sleizen "tear to pieces; to split,
cleave." Extended sense of "conspicuous success" is first recorded in English in 1741.
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