tableau
pronunciation
How to pronounce tableau in British English:
UK [ˈtæbləʊ]
How to pronounce tableau in American English:
US [ˈtæbloʊ]
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- Noun:
- a group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting)
- any dramatic scene
Word Origin
- tableau (n.)
- 1690s, "a picturesque or graphic description or picture," from French tableau "picture, painting" (12c.), from Old French table "slab, writing tablet" (see table (n.)) + diminutive suffix -eau, from Latin -ellus. Hence tableau-vivant (1817) "person or persons silent and motionless, enacting a well-known scene, incident, painting, etc.," 19c. parlor game, literally "living picture."
Example
- 1. Scores of large boats sit tilted in the sand a tableau both sad and surreal .
- 2. The earthquake is hit by the most disgraceful tableau .
- 3. Each month features a spectacular landscape or breathtaking tableau , but somewhere in every shot there 's a pile of dog poop .
- 4. With the training of basic skills , the constitution of tableau and sketching , it can make students develop their rational thinking and imagination .
- 5. Tableau dropped wikileaks data due to what lieberman said .