tableau

tableau
noun (plural tableaux; also tableaus) Etymology: French, from Middle French tablel, diminutive of table, from Old French Date: 1660 1. a graphic description or representation ; picture <
winsome tableaux of old-fashioned literary days — J. D. Hart
>
2. a striking or artistic grouping ; arrangement, scene 3. [short for tableau vivant (from French, literally, living picture)] a depiction of a scene usually presented on a stage by silent and motionless costumed participants

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  • tableau — Tableau. s. m. Ouvrage de peinture sur une table de bois, de cuivre &c. ou sur de la toile. Un beau tableau. un grand tableau. un tableau de Raphaël, du Titien, du Poussin &c. le fond d un tableau. le dessein & l ordonnance d un tableau. la… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • Tableau — (plural: tableaux; from the French diminutive of table , sometimes meaning picture ) may mean:* Tableau vivant, a motionfull performance in theatre * Young tableau, a combinatorial object built on partition diagrams * Method of analytic tableaux… …   Wikipedia

  • Tableau — Sn Gemälde, Schilderung, Übersicht per. Wortschatz fach. (18. Jh.) Entlehnung. Entlehnt aus frz. tableau, zu l. tabula.    Ebenso nndl. tableau, ne. tableau, nschw. tablå, nnorw. tablå; Tafel. ✎ DF 5 (1981), 10. französisch l …   Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

  • tableau — (n.) 1690s, a picturesque or graphic description or picture, from Fr. tableau picture, painting, from O.Fr. table slab, writing tablet (see TABLE (Cf. table) (n.)) + dim. suffix eau, from L. ellus. Hence tableau vivant (1817) person or persons… …   Etymology dictionary

  • tableau — {{/stl 13}}{{stl 7}}[wym. tablo – akcent na ostatniej sylabie] {{/stl 7}}{{stl 8}}rz. n ndm {{/stl 8}}{{stl 7}} pamiątkowa tablica, na której umieszczone są pojedyncze zdjęcia osób uczęszczających do jednej klasy, należących do jednej grupy,… …   Langenscheidt Polski wyjaśnień

  • tableau — de peinture, Picta tabula. Un tableau où estoient ces mots escrits, Incisa tabula his literis. Le tableau où sont les noms de tous les Conseillers de la Cour, Album Curiae. B …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • tableau — /fr. taˈblo/ [vc. fr., dim. di table «tavola»] s. m. inv. 1. (di roulette) tappeto 2. (di informazioni) tabella, quadro FRASEOLOGIA tableau vivant, quadro vivente …   Sinonimi e Contrari. Terza edizione

  • tableau — [tab′lō΄, ta blō′] n. pl. tableaux [tab′lōz΄, tablōz′] or tableaus [Fr < OFr tablel, dim. of table: see TABLE] 1. a striking, dramatic scene or picture 2. TABLEAU VIVANT …   English World dictionary

  • Tableau — Ta bleau , n.; pl. {Tableaux}. [F., dim. fr. L. tabula a painting. See {Table}.] 1. A striking and vivid representation; a picture. [1913 Webster] 2. A representation of some scene by means of persons grouped in the proper manner, placed in… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Tableau I — is a 1921 painting by Piet Mondrian. Like many of his works of that period, it consists of rectangles of colour, separated by black lines. It has been said that it is in fact British Prime Minister Gordon Brown s favourite painting, and that he… …   Wikipedia

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