tableau vivant
Origin of tableau vivant
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How to use tableau vivant in a sentence
The next minute they are frozen in an eerie, extended tableau vivant——a still-life that's not actually still.
‘A Field in England’ Is a Psychedelic Cinematic Trip | Andrew Romano | February 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOne by one the young models stepped from the tableau vivant to march down the stage and back up again.
And that will be the best tableau-vivant you or any one else can study.
It spreads before you every day and all around you: a picture whose figures throb with hidden life,a very tableau vivant.
A New Atmosphere | Gail HamiltonI very much enjoy a letter from Joan, which gives me a kind of tableau vivant of you all.
Life of John Coleridge Patteson | Charlotte M. Yonge
The other drawing presents a tableau vivant on a larger scale, and of a much deeper interest.
Leading Articles on Various Subjects | Hugh MillerAnd 189 in this transcript of the larger tableau vivant we find exactly the same phenomena.
Leading Articles on Various Subjects | Hugh Miller
British Dictionary definitions for tableau vivant
/ French (tablo vivɑ̃) /
a representation of a scene, painting, sculpture, etc, by a person or group posed silent and motionless
Origin of tableau vivant
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