tableau vivant
/ˌtabləʊ ˈviːvɒ̃
/ /tablo vivɑ̃/noun (plural tableaux vivants pronounced same)
A silent and motionless group of people arranged to represent a scene or incident.One of the most obviously formal of these was the ceremony of the royal entry, in which allegorical pageants, tableaux vivants, verse, and music combined to welcome a sovereign or royal spouse into the capital or major city of the realm....
- The arrangement of her family is much like the arrangement of a tableau vivant, an arrangement of life fixed in place.
- He was represented by four works, including several tableaux vivants populated by friends, family, and servants and photographed on his estate.
Origin
French, literally 'living picture'.
- Notkerian
- not know from nothing
- not know if one is coming or going
- not know one is born
- not know one's arse from one's elbow
- not know shit
- not know shit from Shinola
- not know someone from a bar of soap
- not know someone from Adam
- not know that
- not know the first thing about
- not know the meaning of the word
- not know what hit one
- not know what to do with oneself
- not know where (or which way) to look
- not know where to put oneself
- not know which way (or where) to turn
- not least
- not let the grass grow under one's feet
- not-life
- not likely!
- not like the look (or sound) of
- not-living
- not long ago
- not-me