é·clat ( ā-klä , āklä ′)
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n. 1. Great brilliance, as of performance or achievement. 2. Conspicuous success. 3. Great acclamation or applause. 4. Archaic Notoriety; scandal.
[French, brilliance, from Middle French esclat, bursting noise, brilliance, from Old French, splinter, from esclater, to burst out, splinter, from Frankish *slaitan, to split, break; akin to Old High German sleizan, to rip up, causative-iterative of slīzan, to rip up, tear, from Germanic *slītan (compare Old English slītan and Old Norse slíta, to slit).] |