tableau

Examples

• All

• Our next tableau... ...features someone who has devoted herself to the musical life of this city.

  Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)

• Ibsen frames a final tableau for us just before the curtain falls.

  Academic text (1996)

• Get ready for the tableau, girls.

  The Band Wagon (1953)

• Kind of burning against that... that tableau, talking to me...

  Manglehorn (2015)

• Perfect, I think, for the tableau.

  Victoria & Abdul (2017)

• The team with the best tableau gets to perform it at the National Cathedral for the president or something.

  Eight Days a Week (1997)

• The members of the school board will now present a patriotic tableau.

  The Music Man (1962)

• So let's look at the visual tableau that Hemingway is creating for us.

• The rest of us were a frozen tableau, still awed by the extraordinary exchange.

  Fiction book (1997)

• The restaurant was deserted, a dimly lit tableau of empty tables, booths, and a mudstained tile floor.

  Fiction book (1999)

Synonyms

S

spectacle

vstableau

72 4.2

An impressive event like a parade or fireworks that people come to see

is more deliberately arranged and often small, like an artistic scene

T

tableau vivant

vstableau

• Literature

1 9.9

A group of people who stand still and pose to show a scene or painting

is broader, including objects or dynamic arrangements beyond posed groups

Compounds

T

tableau vivant

• Literature

1 9.9

A group of people who stand still and pose to show a scene or painting

How Dramatic

spectacle

72 4.2

tableau

• Literature

17 8.4

arrangement

188 2.7

Surface Forms

Etymology