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tableau vivant

tableau vivant noun: a tableau (group scene resembling a painting).

Noun

tableau vivant (plural tableaux vivants)

  1. A tableau (group scene resembling a painting).
    • Indeed, there is something uncanny about the careful re-enactment of the scene in the manner of a tableau vivant, something that Jean-Luc Godard would also experiment with and try to push to its limits in Passion (1982).2013, Rob Stone, Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla, A Companion to Luis Buñuel, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN

tableau vivant meaning in Tamil

tableau vivant in Tamil

உயிரிக்காட்சி

Forms of tableau vivant

pluraltableaux vivants

Origin of tableau vivant

Borrowed from French tableau vivant (literally “living picture”).

Questions about tableau vivant

What does tableau vivant mean?
Tableau vivant means a tableau (group scene resembling a painting).
What is tableau vivant in Tamil?
Tableau vivant in Tamil is உயிரிக்காட்சி. See Tableau vivant meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is tableau vivant?
Tableau vivant is a noun.
What is the plural of tableau vivant?
The plural of tableau vivant is tableaux vivants.

Words near tableau vivant in the dictionary

  1. tablea
  2. tableas
  3. tableau
  4. tableau curtain
  5. tableau curtains
  6. tableau vivant
  7. tableaus
  8. tableaux
  9. tableaux vivants
  10. tablebase
  11. tablebases

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