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Tableau vivant   Listen
Tableau vivant

noun
1.
A group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting).  Synonym: tableau.






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"Tableau vivant" Quotes from Famous Books



... Holmes had resolved coolly to weigh this woman, brain, heart, and flesh, to know how much of a hindrance she would be, he could only see her, with his artist's sense, as delicate a bloom of colouring as eye could crave, in one immovable posture,—as he had seen her once in some masquerade or tableau vivant. June, I think it was, she chose to represent that evening,—and with her usual success; for no woman ever knew more thoroughly her material of shape or colour, or how to work it up. Not an ill-chosen fancy, either, that of the moist, warm month. Some tranced summer's day ...
— Margret Howth, A Story of To-day • Rebecca Harding Davis



Words linked to "Tableau vivant" :   arrangement



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