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[ey-klah; Fr. ey-kla] 
–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; < F: splinter, fragment, burst, flash, brilliance, OF esclat, n. deriv. of esclater to burst, break violently, prob. < Old Low Franconian *slaitan to split, break (cf. OHG sleizan to tear), a causative of Gmc *slitan; see slit
1665–75; < F: splinter, fragment, burst, flash, brilliance, OF esclat, n. deriv. of esclater to burst, break violently, prob. < Old Low Franconian *slaitan to split, break (cf. OHG sleizan to tear), a causative of Gmc *slitan; see slit
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| é·clat (ā-klä', ā'klä') n.
[French, brilliance, from Old French esclat, splinter, from esclater, to burst out, splinter, probably of Germanic origin.] |
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eclat
1674, "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 Eng. in 1741.
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