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View synonyms for living picture

living picture

living picture

noun

  1. another term for tableau vivant
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of living picture1

First recorded in 1870–75
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Example Sentences

The smallest details of the living picture do not escape her notice.

For, in it, the poet presents a living picture of what was believed and was striven for by many of his contemporaries.

Toledo is a living picture, a city in which each building is a voice that speaks the history of Spain.

Mr. Ormsby the midshipman arrived a living picture of the ravages made in a good constitution by a Batavian fever.

And his difficulties are not slight ones, for his living picture must be right from all points, and in all lights.

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