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Scene in story about Balthazar originally taking gold
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tableau
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A striking and vivid representation; a picture. 2 A vivid graphic scene of a group of people arranged as in a painting. 3 (cx card games English) In solitaire card games, the main area, where random cards can be arranged.
Usage examples of tableau.
Since there can be only as many rows as there are letters in the alphabet, the tableau is square.
Apres avoir attache la bride de son cheval a une branche, il regardait son tableau en lui faisant ses observations et ses compliments.
The retro lifestyles emerging from the corporate enclaves had less historical accuracy than a Shen tableau but a softer, more buyable feel.
Rangs, den sie in dem Tableau der Arbeiten einnehmen, wird die Dividende nach drei Klassen vertheilt: 1.
The tableau held for several breaths, then Eppie lowered the blaster slightly.
Pamiers me fit le tableau de la situation malheureux de ce prince et de la famille royale .
Shrugging, he held the hips aloft with one hand, brushed away foam with the other, found the sobering point and pressed it deeply with the ball of his thumb, holding the tableau while he counted slowly toward ten.
Most of the rest of the crowd exited only as far as where Fitz had reappeared, so they could each throw him ten more lire to see the second tableau.
Les tableaux du maitre, je les voyais au Salon, aux Mirlitons, au Volney, chez Georges Petit, chez les amateurs de peinture et chez les femmes a la mode.
TP Tableaux, find Nurturing and Support and the Inner Resources to face your own unblinking sight, is what this goes on to say, a bit overheatedly maybe.
Monk, returning, published an elaborate if silent superciliary comment on the tableau.
Dimly, Suttle was beginning to put it all together: the newly scrawled name on the speakerphone downstairs, the open door, the carefully recreated tableau in the bedroom, the hostage offered up and waiting, the shiny blades beside the bed, the open invitation to a spot of help-yourself revenge.
Eastern States Taxidermy Convention that year and I had high hopes in the Dead Zoo category, which means a tableau of animals.
The endless tableau of the lunar orb - dead now, whatever her past was, and cold as the unhuman sepulchres she bears amid the ruin of dusty centuries older than men - and the sea - astir, perhaps, with some unkenned life, some forbidden sentience - confronted me with a horrible vividness.
Andy Burne, Clint Kael and Al Vayre, all holding their patched-up rifles, staring in slack-jawed amazement at the tableau of scarlet death in front of them.