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TABLEAU
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Irregular inflected form: tableaux
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any dramatic scene
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("tableau" is a kind of...):
aspect; panorama; prospect; scene; view; vista (the visual percept of a region)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting)
Synonyms:
tableau; tableau vivant
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("tableau" is a kind of...):
arrangement (an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging)
