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tableaux vivants

tableaux vivants is the plural of tableau vivant.

Meaning of tableau vivant

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

Questions about tableaux vivants

What is tableaux vivants the plural of?
Tableaux vivants is the plural of tableau vivant.

Words near tableaux vivants in the dictionary

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

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