eclat

• The Theatricals 'went off' with great eclat, and the performance was really good, really clever or better. —  The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 1845-1846
• “Na, na, I never knew onybody killed wi' drinking, but I hae kenn'd some that dee'd in the training.” A positive eclat was attached to the accomplished and well-trained consumer of claret or of whisky toddy, which gave an importance and even merit to the practice of drinking, and which had a most injurious effect. —  Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character
• In his own house, he would have rung for the servants and left them to repair damages; but at an hotel, an eclat was to be avoided, if possible Emily, my dear, go to your mother--you know how to help her No, I do not, papa," said the child, crying; "but Norah used to open her hands Rainscourt's eyes were naturally directed to the fingers of his wife, in which he perceived a collection of notes and letters. —  The King's Own
• It went off with considerable eclat, although there were some blunders and mistakes, as might have been expected. —  The Bobbin Boy or, How Nat Got His learning
• The desire of inspiring them with more, seems the only way to account for the eclat which he chooses to give to his conversion. —  Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3

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