Crossword clues for tableau
tableau
- Picture my heart at bottom of list
- Bill left French water scene
- Bill getting the water for Nancy's group still on stage
- Dramatic scene in which gold is hidden under item of furniture
- Dramatic scene - spectacle
- Theatrical group of motionless figures
- Picturesque scene
- Artistic grouping
- Vivid description
- Silent, motionless depiction of a scene on a stage
- Dramatic scene — spectacle
- Artistic arrangement
- A striking arrangement
- Dramatic scene
- Scene
- Striking scene
- Dramatic scene (where the action is frozen?)
- A group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting)
- Any dramatic scene
- ___ vivant (sustained pose)
- Group of motionless figures - dramatic scene
- Gold under counter in frozen moment
- Kind of cross about clever dramatic scene
- Staged scene
- Scene with still figures
- Scene in story about Balthazar originally taking gold
- Frozen scene able to be negotiated by Greek character
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
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 persons silent and motionless, enacting a well-known scene, incident, painting, etc.," 19c. parlor game, literally "living picture."
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.
WordNet
n. a group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting) [syn: tableau vivant]
any dramatic scene
[also: tableaux (pl)]
Wikipedia
Tableau (French for 'little table' literally, also used to mean 'picture'; tableaux or, rarely, tableaus) may refer to:
Arts- Tableau, more properly tableau vivant, motionless performance in theatre evoking a painting or sculpture; or a painting or photograph evoking such a theatrical scene rather than a more naturalistic depiction
- Tableau, in opera, ballet, and some other dramatic forms, another word for scene
- Tableau, a series of four paintings by Piet Mondrian titled Tableau I through Tableau IV
- Tableau (solitaire), a specific solitaire card game
- Tableaux, stacks of playing cards in which gameplay (varying by the specific type of solitaire) occurs; see solitaire terminology
- Analytic tableaux (also, semantic tableau, or truth tree), a technique of automated theorem proving in logic
- Tableau, another term for a table of data, particularly:
- Cryptographic tableau, or tabula recta, used in manual cipher systems
- Division tableau, a table used to do long division
- Tableau (linguistics), a method of evaluating ranked constraints over a set c tableau (truth tree), a proof procedure for various logics which builds a tree to search for counterexamples of a formula or argument.
- Young tableau, a combinatorial object built on partition diagrams
- Tableau, a restaurant at Wynn Las Vegas
- Tableau Software, a company providing tools for data visualization and business intelligence
Tableau is a solitaire that founds its own style, which means all cards are open and arranged to the left and right of the foundations. This is a similar setup like Little Napoleon Patience (solitaire), Beleaguered Castle, Fortress (solitaire), Kings Solitaire (solitaire), or Fürst Bismarck (solitaire). This is a thinking and planning game that starts hard and gets easier the farther one advances.
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.