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Word: Tableau
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 17th century (in the sense ‘picture’, figuratively ‘picturesque description’): from French, literally ‘picture’, diminutive of table (see table)
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Phonetic Spelling:
ˈtabləʊ
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a group of models or motionless figures representing a scene from a story or from history; a tableau vivant
Short Definition:group of models or motionless figures representing scene from story
Examples:- in the first act the action is presented in a series of tableaux
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