tab|leau

tab|leau
tab|leau «TAB loh, tab LOH», noun, plural tab|leaux «TAB lohz, tab LOHZ», less frequently, tab|leaus «TAB lohz, TAB|LOHZ».
1. a striking scene; picture.
2. a representation of a person, statue, picture, scene, or incident, by a person or group posing in appropriate costume. Tableaux are silent and motionless. »

Our school is going to present several tableaux from American history. Those who stumbled through the blackened halls and who could still keep their eyes open were rewarded with wax tableaus on which certain figures suddenly came alive only to freeze again (Saturday Review).

3. Figurative. a picturesque or graphic description: »

The book starts out with a tableau which in its intellectual irrelevance and mawkish sentimentality is the kind of journalism one has come to expect (Hans J. Morgenthau).

╂[< French tableau (diminutive) < Old French table; see etym. under tablature (Cf. ↑tablature)]

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