Word of the Day for Thursday, February 3, 2011
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eclat \ey-KLAH\, noun:
eclat \ey-KLAH\, noun:
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1. Brilliance of success, reputation, etc.
1. Brilliance of success, reputation, etc.
2. Showy or elaborate display.
3. Acclamation; acclaim.
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The B.O. has been showing off his political eclat with his incredibly deft handling of the current Egyptian crisis - NOT!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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It was a great object with her to escape all enquiry or eclat; but it was her intention to be as decidedly cool to him as might be compatible with their relationship ; and to retrace, as quietly as she could, the few steps of unnecessary intimacy she had been gradually led along.-- Jane Austen, Northanger abbey: A novel
It was a great object with her to escape all enquiry or eclat; but it was her intention to be as decidedly cool to him as might be compatible with their relationship ; and to retrace, as quietly as she could, the few steps of unnecessary intimacy she had been gradually led along.-- Jane Austen, Northanger abbey: A novel
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Aimee's Bistro combines Parisian eclat with contemporary California beach chic in this well- established bistro.-- Los Angeles Magazine, June, 2004
Aimee's Bistro combines Parisian eclat with contemporary California beach chic in this well- established bistro.-- Los Angeles Magazine, June, 2004
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Eclat comes from the French eclat, "fragment, burst, splinter, flash," which relates to esclater, "to burst, break violently."
Eclat comes from the French eclat, "fragment, burst, splinter, flash," which relates to esclater, "to burst, break violently."
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