tableau vivant

1. 1.

   a group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting)

   Synonymstableau

   Broaderarrangement

Questions about tableau vivant

What does tableau vivant mean?

tableau vivant means "a group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting)".

What is another word for tableau vivant?

Close synonyms include tableau. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tableau vivant a common word?

tableau vivant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.