éclatの英語

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• eclat

語源

Borrowed from French éclat, from éclater (“to burst out”). Akin to 古期英語 slītan (“to split”). More at slice, slit. Doublet of slate and slat.

発音

• IPA^(key): /eɪˈklɑː/
• (廃れた用法) IPA^(key): /eɪˈklɔː/^[1]
• 韻: -ɑː

名詞

éclat (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 éclats)

1. A brilliant or successful effect; brilliance of success or effort; splendor; brilliant show; striking effect; glory; renown.
   • 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter 16, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC:

     The distressing explanation she had to make to Harriet, and all that poor Harriet would be suffering, with the awkwardness of future meetings, the difficulties of continuing or discontinuing the acquaintance, of subduing feelings, concealing resentment, and avoiding éclat, were enough to occupy her in most unmirthful reflections some time longer, and she went to bed at last with nothing settled but the conviction of her having blundered most dreadfully.

   • 1875, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 4, in Eight Cousins‎^[2]:

     "All she needs is a year or two at a fashionable finishing school, so that at eighteen she can come out with éclat," put in Aunt Clara.

   • 1899, Thorstein Veblen, “Pecuniary Canons of Taste”, in The Theory of the Leisure Class […] ‎^[3], New York: Macmillan, →OCLC:

     Most objects of this general class, with the partial exception of articles of personal adornment, would serve all other purposes than the honorific one equally well, whether owned by the person viewing them or not; and even as regards personal ornaments it is to be added that their chief purpose is to lend éclat to the person of their wearer (または owner) by comparison with other persons who are compelled to do without.

   • 2002 March 5, Ben Brantley, “Theater Review”, in New York Times, page E1:

     Against this background, made mutable by T. J. Gerckens's ethereal lighting, simple props and gestures are used with startling visual éclat.

   • 2003 April, Christopher Hitchens, “Holy Writ”, in The Atlantic‎^[4]:

     The same cannot be said for the writing of Oriana Fallaci, the celebrated Italian journalist whose high-octane interviews with powerful men had such éclat in the seventies, and whose memoir of her dead lover, the Greek resistance fighter Alexander Panagoulis, might be described as a classic of hysterical materialism.

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アナグラム

• CELTA, Cleta, cleat, ectal