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clat

British  
/ klæt /

noun

  1. dialect an irksome or troublesome task

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It also had the magic of 3-D, whose consumer clat and higher prices are supposed to guarantee hits in any genre.

From Time • Aug. 22, 2010

Rollickingly free of her and yet how devilishly his shoes could clat on the sidewalk.

From The Vertical City by Hurst, Fannie

Don’t you take any notice of his silly clat.

From A Life's Eclipse by Nash, J.

Of the pat, pat, patter and the clat, clat, clatter of small claws upon the roof!

From Dorothy's House Party by Raymond, Evelyn

But, for the soliloquies, and the grand conference with the mother! oh, there, Garrick rose up to my remembrance with an clat of perfection that mocks all approach of approbation for a successor.

From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Burney, Fanny