tableau vivant (redirected from tableaux vivants)

tableau vi·vant  (v-vä)

n. pl. tab·leaux vi·vants (t-bl v-vä)

A scene presented on stage by costumed actors who remain silent and motionless as if in a picture.

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[French : tableau, picture + vivant, living.]

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tableau vivant - a group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting) tableau arrangement - an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging; "a flower arrangement"