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éclat
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Definition:an effort with flair, something done with splendor
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The ceremony which went off with great éclat was characterised by the most affecting cordiality.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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In order to give it the more eclat, every table is to be furnished with sweet-meats and nosegays; which, however, are not to be touched till notice is given by the ringing of a bell, and then the ladies may help themselves without restriction.
Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
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As soon as the bacon was well under way, and Millie, her lymphatic maid, had been brisked up a bit by a few deftly chosen expressions of contempt, she carried the cloth, plates, and glasses into the parlour and began to lay them with the utmost éclat.H.G. Wells. The Invisible Man.
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We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb."
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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"You must be mistaken, I have no recollection of it whatever, it is not like me, for in that sort of conversation I am always most laconic, and I would never have predicted the success of one of those coups d’éclat which are often nothing more than coups de tête and almost always degenerate into coups de force.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 5]
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Prince Eugen [...] had departed with immense éclat, armed with the comfortable million, to arrange formally for his betrothal.
Arnold Bennett. The Grand Babylon Hôtel (1902)
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