Tableau
noun
A picture, scene or painting which shows a particular event or situation.
The final scene of the movie was a striking tableau of a family reunion.
Often appears as...
- striking tableau
- compelling tableau
noun
A group of models or motionless figures representing a scene from a story or from history.
Students presented a tableau to illustrate a historic event.
Often appears as...
- historic tableau
- tableau vivant
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Academic
noun
A graphical representation of data or information.
The manager presented a tableau to show the company's sales performance.
Often appears as...
- data tableau
- information tableau
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Technical
noun
A picture, scene or painting which shows a particular event or situation.
The final scene of the movie was a striking tableau of a family reunion.
Often appears as...
- striking tableau
- compelling tableau
noun
A group of models or motionless figures representing a scene from a story or from history.
Students presented a tableau to illustrate a historic event.
Often appears as...
- historic tableau
- tableau vivant
Usage tips
Academic
noun
A graphical representation of data or information.
The manager presented a tableau to show the company's sales performance.
Often appears as...
- data tableau
- information tableau
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Impact
The word 'tableau' often conveys a sense of awe or drama through visual details.
During the parade, the vivid tableau of the dancers left the spectators in awe.
Pro Tip 2/3Frozen Moment
'Tableau' usually refers to a single, still image, like a paused moment in time.
The photograph captured a tableau of the silent, snowy forest.
Pro Tip 3/3Storytelling
A 'tableau' can tell a story or highlight an event without the need for action or words.
The artist's tableau at the exhibit narrated the hardships of rural life.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Impact
The word 'tableau' often conveys a sense of awe or drama through visual details.
During the parade, the vivid tableau of the dancers left the spectators in awe.
Pro Tip 2/3Frozen Moment
'Tableau' usually refers to a single, still image, like a paused moment in time.
The photograph captured a tableau of the silent, snowy forest.
Pro Tip 3/3Storytelling
A 'tableau' can tell a story or highlight an event without the need for action or words.
The artist's tableau at the exhibit narrated the hardships of rural life.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Impact
The word 'tableau' often conveys a sense of awe or drama through visual details.
During the parade, the vivid tableau of the dancers left the spectators in awe.
Pro Tip 2/3Frozen Moment
'Tableau' usually refers to a single, still image, like a paused moment in time.
The photograph captured a tableau of the silent, snowy forest.
Pro Tip 3/3Storytelling
A 'tableau' can tell a story or highlight an event without the need for action or words.
The artist's tableau at the exhibit narrated the hardships of rural life.
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Can You Hear the Reggae...
the younger the younger i think you said yoshi carries my heart and your older son carries your spear it's the other way around oh it's the other way i'm sorry okay yo she carries the spear despair moses my heart if you were gonna paint the tableau of
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Ravin Agrawal: 10 young...
Raqib Shaw is Kolkata-born, Kashmir-raised, and London-trained. He too is reinventing the miniature tradition. He creates these opulent tableaus inspired by Hieronymus Bosch,
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Can You Hear the Reggae...
the younger the younger i think you said yoshi carries my heart and your older son carries your spear it's the other way around oh it's the other way i'm sorry okay yo she carries the spear despair moses my heart if you were gonna paint the tableau of
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Ravin Agrawal: 10 young...
Raqib Shaw is Kolkata-born, Kashmir-raised, and London-trained. He too is reinventing the miniature tradition. He creates these opulent tableaus inspired by Hieronymus Bosch,
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H. P. Lovecraft
American Novelist
There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a third expressing a general situation, condition, legend or intellectual conception, and a fourth explaining a definite tableau or specific dramatic situation or climax.
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Tony Curtis
American Actor
Even on a personal note, my dressing table downstairs is crowded with things, like a mini landscape. It's a city with buildings and towers and roads. There's a pool and a little park. When I move something around it becomes a different tableau.
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Eliot Spitzer
American Lawyer
Jimmy Carter laid out policies that we now look back at and say, 'Gee, that actually made sense.' But you also need to explain it and convey and communicate in a way that provides that tableau, that understanding.
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Cecilia Bartoli
Italian Musician
The goal is always to make a nice tableau painting with the voice. The more color I can find, the more shadow I can find - the goal is always to make more nuance and colors.
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Lucinda Franks
American Writer
The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity.
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Voltaire
French Writer
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
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H. P. Lovecraft
American Novelist
There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a third expressing a general situation, condition, legend or intellectual conception, and a fourth explaining a definite tableau or specific dramatic situation or climax.
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Tony Curtis
American Actor
Even on a personal note, my dressing table downstairs is crowded with things, like a mini landscape. It's a city with buildings and towers and roads. There's a pool and a little park. When I move something around it becomes a different tableau.
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Eliot Spitzer
American Lawyer
Jimmy Carter laid out policies that we now look back at and say, 'Gee, that actually made sense.' But you also need to explain it and convey and communicate in a way that provides that tableau, that understanding.
Quote examples
Cecilia Bartoli
Italian Musician
The goal is always to make a nice tableau painting with the voice. The more color I can find, the more shadow I can find - the goal is always to make more nuance and colors.
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Lucinda Franks
American Writer
The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity.
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Voltaire
French Writer
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
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