tableau
桌子,台面,桌椅,桌面
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plural tab·leaux [ta-blohz, tab-lohz], /tæˈbloʊz, ˈtæb loʊz/, tab·leaus.
- : a picture, as of a scene.
- : a picturesque grouping of persons or objects; a striking scene.
- : a representation of a picture, statue, scene, etc., by one or more persons suitably costumed and posed.
- : Solitaire. the portion of a layout to which one may add cards according to suit or denomination.
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I assume I will sell my work until people stop buying it, both out of necessity and because it does bring me joy to make a silly little thing that someone will incorporate into the tableau of their home.
Most of the movie’s tableaus—like the one featuring the distracted waiter—are one-offs.
Raya and the Last Dragon offers a tableau of cultural references inspired by the whole of Southeast Asia.
A first-rank boulevardier in the 1960s tableau, his wives included one Rita Hayworth.
Now those are destroyed, too, and the animals are strewn about, bloating and stinking, as if in a tableau of “Guernica.”
The tableau of five candidates on stage at first seemed more like a set of high school stereotypes than a political debate.
The next minute they are frozen in an eerie, extended tableau vivant——a still-life that's not actually still.
Everybody else was screaming; the noise was overwhelming, the tableau so terrifying that my brain locked up.
The Tableau des Saints is a still more severe criticism of the heroes of Christendom.
Her interruption of the tableau sounded oddly abrupt to ears used to her pleasant accents.
The curtain fell on a tableau: the Holidays, with their flags and banners, old Father Time, and the happy children.