What does tableau mean?
Tableau means A striking and vivid representation or scene; a picture..
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/ˈtæ.bləʊ/ · noun
A striking and vivid representation or scene; a picture..
Stefania Chlouveraki, the project leader, stands at a long sorting table. She turns the colored fragments over and over in her fingertips. She fits each one into its place: a magnificent tableau of lions, crosses, pomegranate trees.
Folding chairs had been placed at prudent distances, and masks were dutifully worn. An Australian Labradoodle belonging to the home’s owners strutted among the guests. Despite the breezy suburban tableau, the occasion was fraught.
For the tableau shown, there are three distinct procedures (one for each standard Young tableau of shape (2,1,1) with entries 1, 2, 3, and 4) for obtaining a Young tableau.
[…] several scenes from the first act were consolidated into one tableau […]
As creative as it might have been, it appeared disjointed, with the sense of many things happening simultaneously, and the promenading performances jumping from one idea to the next – from a cancan to a gothic tableau featuring mock-beheaded women at the windows of the Conciergerie with red streamers that looked like macabre spurting blood.
Use tableau when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tableau means A striking and vivid representation or scene; a picture..
Common synonyms include tableau vivant.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Stefania Chlouveraki, the project leader, stands at a long sorting table. She turns the colored fragments over and over in her fingertips. She fits each one into its place: a magnificent tableau of lions, crosses, pomegranate trees.
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