tableau vivant
noun
tableaux vivants
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pluralof tableau vivant.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The passion play has three storytelling forms: narrative scenes with dialogue, oratorio-like songs performed by a large choir and tableaux vivants of Old Testament moments.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2022
The creamy pastel splendors of her house, with its tableaux vivants, harp music, and girls dressed like Greek nymphs or Georgian wedding cakes do not disguise the moral stench of her person.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2017
Mr. Bonello and Ms. Deshaies scrutinized many paintings, including lesser-known ones, not with an eye to recreating tableaux vivants but in search of telling details: attire, poses, the quality of light.
From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2011
His tableaux vivants are like glittering 21st-century cine-masques, with a poetic structure which swerves conventional expectations of location and narrative.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2010
To welcome him, poets, machinists, actors, tableaux vivants, marionettes, songs, comedies, and "mysteries," were gathered together regardless of expense.
From The Story of Rouen by Sir Theodore Andrea Cook
