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[ta-bloh, tab-loh]

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noun, plural tab·leaux

[ta-blohz, tab-lohz] , 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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Origin:
1690–1700; < French: board, picture, Middle French tablel, diminutive of table table

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IT was a familiar tableau for mothers who have spent countless hours on park benches watching their children.

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tableau (ˈtæbləʊ)

—n , pl -leaux, -leaus
1.	See tableau vivant
2.	a pause during or at the end of a scene on stage when all the performers briefly freeze in position
3.	any dramatic group or scene
4.	logic short for semantic tableau

[C17: from French, from Old French tablel a picture, diminutive of table]

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tableau

1699, "a picturesque or graphic description or picture," from Fr. tableau "picture, painting," from O.Fr. table "slab, writing tablet" (see table) + dim. suffix -eau, from L. -ellus. Hence tableau-vivant (1817) "person or persons silent and motionless, enacting a well-known

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scene, incident, painting, etc.," popular 19c. parlor game, lit. "living picture."

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"The history of theater from the medieval period until the nineteenth century has been in large part a history of further and further separations of the scene of dramatic action from the physical situation of the audience. Even as the subject matter—in the plays of Ibsen, Chekhov, and Strindberg—became more and more continuous with the life of the audience, the stage itself pulled in its apron, emphasized its proscenium, and became a room with an invisible fourth wall, allowing the audience to look in, while keeping it more definitely outside. The progress of film was the reverse. From the stylized and theatrical settings of the early dramas, silent films moved into greater and greater involvement with the actors. Previously the audience saw actors from a distance, with a sense of tableau and formal separation. Although they seemed to be like us, they were not: silent, hieratic, caught in frightened frenzies of comedy, tragedy, and melodrama."

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