Stefania Chlouveraki, the project leader, stands at a long sorting table. She turns the colored fragments over and over in her fingertips. She fits each one into its place: a magnificenttableau of lions, crosses, pomegranate trees.
2020 July 30, David Zweig, “$25,000 Pod Schools: How Well-to-Do Children Will Weather the Pandemic”, inNew York Times[2]:
Folding chairs had been placed at prudent distances, and masks were dutifully worn. An Australian Labradoodle belonging to the home’s owners strutted among the guests. Despite the breezy suburbantableau, the occasion was fraught.
(UK,dated) Hence, an arrangement of actors in static positions on stage, having the effect of pointing up a particular moment in the drama, conventionally revealed by openingtableau curtains (known as "tabs").
(mathematics) A two-dimensionalarray ortable of data, usually numbers, of various specific kinds.
1994, Lynne M. Butler,Subgroup Lattices and Symmetric Functions, American Mathematical Society,→ISBN, page92:
For thetableau shown, there are three distinct procedures (one for each standard Youngtableau of shape (2,1,1) with entries 1, 2, 3, and 4) for obtaining a Youngtableau.
(linguistics, optimality theory) A table that shows constraint violations of a list of candidates given an input and a constraint ranking.
1994, Gerda Taranow,Sarah Bernhardt: The Art Within the Legend, page158:
[…] several scenes from the first act were consolidated into onetableau[…]
2024 July 26, Arifa Akbar, “Paris Olympics opening ceremony review – soaring ambition deflated by patchy delivery”, inThe Guardian[3],→ISSN:
As creative as it might have been, it appeared disjointed, with the sense of many things happening simultaneously, and the promenading performances jumping from one idea to the next – from a cancan to a gothictableau featuring mock-beheaded women at the windows of the Conciergerie with red streamers that looked like macabre spurting blood.
