éclat

noun

Definition of éclatnext
as in pretence

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  1. pomp
  2. parade
  3. mummery
  4. extravaganza
  5. pageant
  6. fanfare
  7. spectacle
  8. pageantry
Noun
  • The neo-Georgian mansions of Bel Air or the old-school pomp and glamor of Hollywood Regency?
    Zoë Dare Hall, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Underneath its papal pomp and regal bearing, this thing is pulp through and through.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2024
Definition of pomp
Noun
  • San Jose’s Veterans Day parade, set to start at noon, will go on, rain or shine.
    Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 11 Nov. 2024
  • The Irish theater company had previously staged a yearly Halloween parade in Dublin beginning in 2013, but there was none planned for this year, per The Independent.
    Abigail Adams, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of parade
Noun
  • But what was once the norm can now seem a kind of ableist mummery, which this production attempts to sidestep by offering a Richard with no physical impairments at all.
    New York Times, New York Times, 11 July 2022
  • Last week, as Russia prepared to invade Ukraine and Gergiev prepared to lead the Vienna Philharmonic in three concerts at Carnegie Hall, the usual mummery was unfolding.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2022
Definition of mummery
Noun
  • Then there was Prime Video, the streaming arm of the tech giant Amazon, which produced a ten-hour pop-up election-cast extravaganza pitched as a more streamlined alternative to its rivals and anchored by NBC émigré Brian Williams.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Harris’ fortunes improved dramatically following Trump’s six-hour rally at Madison Square Garden, a chest-thumping extravaganza that the bettors reckoned would antagonize female voters on the fence.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of extravaganza
Noun
  • Lensed by Tina Barney, the shoot depicts Ratajkowski in a beauty pageant.
    Hannah Malach, WWD, 2 Nov. 2024
  • That’s why Elle’s character and Pete Seeger, Edward’s character, and Joan Baez, of course, and many others are more than just passing through in a kind of Hall of Presidents pageant.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 8 Oct. 2024
Definition of pageant
Noun
  • Coldplay’s Australian tour has been met with major fanfare, partly due to the band’s first performances in the country since 2016.
    Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of his birth, on October 20th, passed with little fanfare.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of fanfare
Noun
  • Spanning three consecutive nights from November 1 to November 3, the concerts drew music lovers and Swifties to witness a spectacle in the heart of downtown Indianapolis.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
  • The finale was a significant step up from the end of WandaVision, for that matter, sticking with character work over spectacle.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of spectacle
Noun
  • The route of embalming, viewing, coffin, and burial, at this stage in history, can seem a bit too Egyptian pharaoh—comically false, a parade of pageantry and expense that only goes so far to mitigate the pain of loss.
    Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
  • The other would become the crown jewel of the parade’s unabashedly hokey pageantry: its collection of majestic balloons, beginning with a two-story Felix the Cat in 1927.
    Michael Callahan, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
Definition of pageantry
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“éclat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/%C3%A9clat. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.

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