The phrase "a splendour" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is magnificent or beautiful, often in a poetic or literary context.
Example: "The sunset over the mountains was a splendour that took my breath away."
Alternatives: "a brilliance" or "a grandeur".
Although they never united politically, these towns developed a common Afro-Arabic, or Swahili, culture and a splendour that amazed the first European arrivals.
Heaven or hell it may be or kingly palaces where the peasant hero rules with a splendour only known to those who have never seen a court.
But both these museums have a splendour and conviction which might, and do, inspire curators to rise to the creative challenge of animating the spaces.
At the terminus of the trans-Saharan trading routes that merchants from the north might use, or at least dispatch their local agents down, the cosmopolitan city came to embody a splendour that lay, for Europeans, tantalisingly out of reach.
Mr Chirac has been in politics for almost 40 years, serving the taxpayers but also, at their expense, being dined, wined and lodged in a splendour that most can barely imagine.
"If others thought him 'a blot,' he was a bright one," she writes, subtly quoting Shelley's sonnet "Lift not the painted veil": "through the unheeding many he did move, / A splendour among shadows, a bright blot / Upon this gloomy scene".
But most of the punters interpreted the dress code literally, as though getting kitted out for a Splendour-themed costume party.
From the early 1900s through the 1950s, film-makers emphasised its glorious, one-of-a-kind splendour, from silent shorts starring Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton through the seminal 1953 cinéma vérité classic, Little Fugitive.
Dominica: Isle of Beauty, Isle of Splendour A simple, spiralling melody stuck on repeat for 47 seconds, but there's such movement and elegance to it.
Destructive as these warriors were, their myths are fascinating, their art has a rugged splendour, and this show – which includes a real longship – should thunder like Thor's hammer.
But, while it has a kitsch splendour, it never gets to the dark heart of Brontë's masterpiece.
