tableau vivant
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tableau vivant
Literally, “living picture”
Example Sentences
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The vision God bless us every one, a Tudorbethan tableau vivant of bronzed meats, spice and familial merriment.
From The Guardian • Dec. 23, 2018
For his debut presentation, an informal tableau vivant, she made a point of not arriving until the final minutes.
From Washington Post • Jun. 2, 2018
“Our tableau vivant is quite vivant,” Todd Forrest, a vice president at the garden, told me as I caught my breath at the entrance to the tunnel of flowers.
From New York Times • May 12, 2016
It’s a tableau vivant of a woman dressed in a golden gown, sitting on a revolving platform and playing an E-minor chord on a guitar.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 11, 2016
It showed him a peculiar tableau vivant on the eastern bank of the canal, near the house boat Annabel Lee.
From The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Marquis, Don
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