Definitions for tableau

tableau tab·leau

Spelling: [ta-bloh, tab-loh]
IPA: /tæˈbloʊ, ˈtæb loʊ/

Tableau is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 156 anagrams from letters in tableau (aabeltu).

Definitions for tableau

noun

  1. a picture, as of a scene.
  2. a picturesque grouping of persons or objects; a striking scene.
  3. a representation of a picture, statue, scene, etc., by one or more persons suitably costumed and posed.
  4. Solitaire. the portion of a layout to which one may add cards according to suit or denomination.

Origin of tableau

1690-1700; French: board, picture, Middle French tablel, diminutive of table table

Examples for tableau

Alice cannot forget her part in that Bombay tableau or in those lake promptings.

Everybody else was screaming; the noise was overwhelming, the tableau so terrifying that my brain locked up.

Has existence only to unroll a tableau, every detail of which is graven on my heart?

The tableau of five candidates on stage at first seemed more like a set of high school stereotypes than a political debate.

Power behind the throne, what a tableau: Sumner and Lincoln!

We all stood stock-still for a minute, like folks in a tableau.

A first-rank boulevardier in the 1960s tableau, his wives included one Rita Hayworth.

Think of a tableau with Swift, Addison, &c, at Templeton's leve!

Now those are destroyed, too, and the animals are strewn about, bloating and stinking, as if in a tableau of “Guernica.”

It contributed to the tableau of grievances inherited by every refugee.

Word Value for tableau
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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