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é·clat  audio  (-klä, klä) KEY 

NOUN:
  1. Great brilliance, as of performance or achievement.
  2. Conspicuous success.
  3. Great acclamation or applause.
  4. Archaic Notoriety; scandal.
ETYMOLOGY:
French, brilliance, from Old French esclat, splinter, from esclater, to burst out, splinter, probably of Germanic origin


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