Tableau
['tæbləʊ] or [tæ'blo]
Definition
(noun.) any dramatic scene.
(noun.) a group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting).
Editor: Maureen--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A striking and vivid representation; a picture.
(n.) A representation of some scene by means of persons grouped in the proper manner, placed in appropriate postures, and remaining silent and motionless.
Checker: Prudence
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Fr.] Picture, scene, representation.
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Definition
n. a picture: a striking and vivid representation:—pl. Tableaux (tab′lōz).—Tableau vivant a representation of a historical or other personage by a motionless living person dressed in suitable costume.
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Examples
- The laughter of everyone who saw the tableau ended the quarrel. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- His _Tableau des vices de la constitution d'Angleterre_ showed the realities of the English position. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Servants brought in salvers covered with numerous cool dainties, and the performers disappeared to get ready for the second charade-tableau. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It was a most grotesque and horrid tableau and I hastened out into the fresh air; glad to escape from so gruesome a place. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Colonel Dent, their spokesman, demanded the tableau of the whole; whereupon the curtain again descended. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- What do you think he said to me after her TABLEAU? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It was an impressive tableau. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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