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
- 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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