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Tableau vivant

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A tableau (group scene resembling a painting).

    "Indeed, there is something uncanny about the careful re-enactment of the scene in the manner of a tableau vivant, something that Jean-Luc Godard would also experiment with and try to push to its limits in Passion (1982)."

  2. 2
    a group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting) wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from French tableau vivant (literally “living picture”).

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