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Definition of Tableau vivant
1. Noun. A group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tableau Vivant
Literary usage of Tableau vivant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities by John Gilmary Shea, Henry Reed Stiles (1867)
"12 — tableau vivant, the book of ' Nicholas "'Nickleby. ... 18 — tableau vivant, '
Washington Irving in " ' England and Charles Dickens in Amer- " ' ica. ..."
2. The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities by John Gilmary Shea, Henry Reed Stiles (1867)
"6—tableau vivant, the book of ' Oliver Twist.1 " 7—Quadrille March, Norma. ...
18—tableau vivant, ' Washington Irving in " ' England and Charles Dickens in ..."
3. The Judicial Dictionary, of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted: To by Frederick Stroud (1903)
"6; a tableau vivant representing a picture, is not a Copy or Reproduction of
it (Hanfstaengl v. Empire Palace, 1894, 2 Ch. 1 ; 63 LJ Ch. 417; 1894, ..."