Crossword clues for tableaux
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tableau \Ta`bleau"\, n.; pl. Tableaux. [F., dim. fr. L. tabula a painting. See Table.]
A striking and vivid representation; a picture.
A representation of some scene by means of persons grouped in the proper manner, placed in appropriate postures, and remaining silent and motionless.
(Solitaire) The arrangement, or layout, of cards.
Wiktionary
WordNet
n. a group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting) [syn: tableau vivant]
any dramatic scene
[also: tableaux (pl)]
See tableau
Usage examples of "tableaux".
To judge from the tableaux, Columbus and Polo and Caesar had been greeted in every new land by numbers of native women only diaphanously clad in gauze and gossamer.
When it Stored people it usually did so in small tableaux after the manner of famous paintings, at first, or humorous poses.
Florian and Edge were too busy with other matters to attend the tableaux presented after the first circus performance.
They admired the public buildings' adornments of banners, ribbons, candles and torches, the multitudes of creches and tableaux of costumed children in Nativity scenes, the carolers on street corners and the trumpeters on church towers playing accompaniment to the bells.
The lights began, and so did the silent tableaux, faint because of age.
I won't have chits like you overlapping with my other tableaux and getting things all confused.
Ghostly white tableaux, streaked gray and rust-red in some places, mottled brown and yellow in others.
One entire long wall and half the other are occupied by tableaux of life-size human figures carved in white plaster and surrounded by plaster, forming out of a plaster background, as if trying to force their way out of the wall.
These are members of the small family of vermin that survives within the catacombs, tunneling behind the tableaux, nourished in part on that which has been saturated with toxic chemical preservatives.
I'm my father's son and I deserve to choke on cold wet plaster, have it squeezed into my nostrils and poured down my throat, until I'm as one with the figures in the tableaux, unbreathing, a harbor for the rats.
His tableaux had an odd familiarity about them, they left a sense of deja vu.
He saw the Monster's tableaux peripherally, as we look beside an object to see it in the dark.