eclat
- n enthusiastic approval
they gave him more eclat than he really deserved - n ceremonial elegance and splendor
entered with much eclat in a coach drawn by eight white horses - n brilliant or conspicuous success or effect
the eclat of a great achievement
- Audiences connected with Lecter for his majesty and eclat as much as his dark sadism.
- Then in 1955 they spotted Pittsburgh's ailing Fort Pitt beer company, and took it over with all the eclat of two cub scouts finding the Northwest Passage.
- Wong's eclat spread beyond the big screen.