noun
pl. -·leaux′ or -·leaus′- a striking, dramatic scene or picture
- tableau vivant
Origin of tableau
French from Old French tablel, diminutive of table: see table
noun
The definition of a tableau is memorable and dramatic image or scene.
An example of a tableau is the picture of the firefighters raising the flag on top of the remains of the World Trade Center.
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noun
pl. tab·leaux, or tab·leaus- A vivid or graphic description: The movie was a tableau of a soldier's life.
- A striking incidental scene, as of a picturesque group of people: “New public figures suddenly abound in the hitherto faceless totalitarian tableaux” ( John McLaughlin )
- An interlude during a scene when all the performers on stage freeze in position and then resume action as before.
- A tableau vivant.
Origin of tableau
French from Old French tablel diminutive of table surface prepared for painting ; see table .THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural tableaux or tableaus)
Origin
From French tableau, from Old French tablel (“a surface which is used primarily for painting").
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Sentence Examples
- Dean gave the tableau a wide berth as he continued back to Bird Song, whistling the entire trip.
- Roussel, Tableau stratigraphique des Pyrenees (Paris, Min.
- At Paris he published in 1805 his Tableau de la Haute Italie, et des Alpes qui l'entourent.
- Ment, especially as a new edition was called for in 1790, the ornithological portion of which was begun by Bonnaterre, who, however, had only finished three hundred and twenty pages of it when he lost his life in the French Revolution; and the work thus arrested was continued by Vieillot under the slightly changed title of Tableau encyclopedique et methodique des trois regnes de la Nature - the Ornithologie forming volumes four to seven, and not completed till 1823.
- Oncken (Frankfort, 1888); a facsimile reprint of the Tableau economique, from the original MS., was published by the British Economic Association (London, 1895).
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