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tableau
Part of speech: NounA lifelike representation; a scene like a picture, showing persons properly grouped.
Usage examples "tableau":- But this was all in the past, which had been happy, and was now a fading tableau. - "The Squatter and the Don", C. Loyal.
- For perhaps thirty seconds we held the strained tableau, then I glanced over my shoulder. - "The Portal of Dreams", Charles Neville Buck.
- He had caught a strange foreboding sense out of the tableau of the white field and the three converging black figures.... - "Erik Dorn", Ben Hecht.