Synonyms for tableau

Grammar : Noun

Spell : ta-bloh, tab-loh

Phonetic Transcription : tæˈbloʊ, ˈtæb loʊ

Définition of tableau

Origin : 1690s, "a picturesque or graphic description or picture," from French tableau "picture, painting," from Old French table "slab, writing tablet" (see table (n.)) + diminutive suffix -eau, from Latin -ellus. Hence tableau-vivant (1817) "person or persons silent and motionless, enacting a well-known scene, incident, painting, etc.," popular 19c. parlor game, literally "living picture."

noun scene, often painted

Example sentences :

Power behind the throne, what a tableau: Sumner and Lincoln!
Extract from : « Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 » by Adam Gurowski

We all stood stock-still for a minute, like folks in a tableau.
Extract from : « Cape Cod Stories » by Joseph C. Lincoln

Has existence only to unroll a tableau, every detail of which is graven on my heart?
Extract from : « Gerald Fitzgerald » by Charles James Lever

Think of a tableau with Swift, Addison, &c, at Templeton's leve!
Extract from : « Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II (of II) » by Edmund Downey

Alice cannot forget her part in that Bombay tableau or in those lake promptings.
Extract from : « Oswald Langdon » by Carson Jay Lee

Dorn returned to find the tableau had suffered an explosion.
Extract from : « Erik Dorn » by Ben Hecht

I couldn't begin to dig what was being said, but the tableau was unmistakable.
Extract from : « Highways in Hiding » by George Oliver Smith

By this a change had taken place in the tableau of figures beside the carriage.
Extract from : « The Free Lances » by Mayne Reid

You were acting a tableau I presume just now as you held her in your embrace.
Extract from : « Romance of Roman Villas » by Elizabeth W. (Elizbeth Williams) Champney

All this was not so much like a succession of events as it was like a tableau.
Extract from : « A Mortal Antipathy » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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