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Recent Examples of éclat
People reports that each panel of her dress was embroidered with 50,400 crystal eclats and 50,400 white beads.
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Krystin Arneson, Glamour, 6 July 2019
Each panel of Turner’s dress was embroidered with 50,400 crystal eclats and 50,400 white beads.
—Kaitlyn Frey, PEOPLE.com, 5 July 2019
Krystin Arneson, Glamour, 6 July 2019
Each panel of Turner’s dress was embroidered with 50,400 crystal eclats and 50,400 white beads.
—Kaitlyn Frey, PEOPLE.com, 5 July 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for éclat
Noun
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The scenes on this planet emphasize pomp and pageantry as well as the finer points of diplomacy.—
Noel Murray,
New York Times,
23 Apr. 2025
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But no amount of pomp and hype can make something true.—
WIRED Staff,
WIRED,
24 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The silverware would give them something to show off during next Monday’s parade.—
Beren Cross,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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Along the parade route, even homeowners joined in, dousing attendees using garden hoses and tossing water balloons from their driveways.—
Christopher Torres,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
28 Apr. 2025
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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
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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
Noun
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The rave attracts people from near and far for the massive boating and drinking extravaganza.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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The country music festival kicks off April 25 with some of the biggest names in country music hitting the stage for a three-day extravaganza at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California.—
Gabe Hauari,
USA Today,
26 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Hudson will try to win a beauty pageant in her home state of Maine, and will face an uncommon opponent Hudson will be competing in the Miss Maine USA Beauty Pageant later this month after finishing as the first runner-up in last year’s contest.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
2 May 2025
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Enter Heidi Gardner dressed like a pageant queen, but with a gown made entirely from toilet paper.—
Tom Tapp,
Deadline,
30 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In another timeline, Joel Souza’s Rust would come and go with mild fanfare and maybe some critical praise.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Apr. 2025
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Let a pair of Dries Van Noten sneakers anchor the look with minimal fanfare.—
Cortne Bonilla,
Vogue,
29 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Throughout the show, she was seen recording and dancing along to Gaga’s Viva La Mayhem spectacle.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
28 Apr. 2025
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Sometimes death is itself the spectacle, the thing that people are really here to see, as in the double-suicide of Romeo + Juliet.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
Noun
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April 23, 2025 But a papal funeral is a papal funeral, and those present for the funeral Mass on Saturday, along with millions watching online or on TV around the world, will still observe a solemn moment involving sumptuous Catholic pageantry.—
Elisabetta Povoledo,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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More than a decade after Gone With the Wind’s silver screen debut, O’Connor published a story satirizing the gala’s pageantry.—
Ellen Wexler,
Smithsonian Magazine,
25 Mar. 2025
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“éclat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/%C3%A9clat. Accessed 13 May. 2025.
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