tableau
/tæˈbloʊ/ noun C2- A striking and vivid representation or scene; a picture.
- A vivid graphic scene of a group of people or objects arranged as in a painting or bas relief sculpture.
- A two-dimensional array or table of data, usually numbers, of various specific kinds.
- A table that shows constraint violations of a list of candidates given an input and a constraint ranking.
- Mostly in solitaire card games, but also in other card and board games, the main area, where random cards can be arranged.
- A semantic tableau.
- A unit of a play, an opera, or a ballet with change of stage setting.
Plural tableaux
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Tommy Sloane let his team of crickets escape him altogether while he stared open-mouthed at the tableau.
And we’re to have a tableau at the last--‘Faith, Hope and Charity.
The tableau was pretty, but the pose and juxtaposition were too eloquent and evident to require explanation.
The cart must be tastefully ornamented; and if you and I dress ourselves as Neapolitan reapers, we may get up a striking tableau, after the manner of that splendid picture by Léopold Robert.
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