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  1. tableaus: Merriam-Webster
  2. tableaus: Collins English Dictionary
  3. tableaus: Vocabulary.com
  4. Tableau's, tableaus: Wordnik
  5. tableaus: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. tableaus: Wiktionary
  7. tableaus: Dictionary.com
  8. tableaus: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See tableau as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tableau)

noun:  A striking and vivid representation or scene; a picture.
noun:  A vivid graphic scene of a group of people or objects arranged as in a painting or bas relief sculpture.
noun:  (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 opening tableau curtains (known as "tabs").
noun:  (mathematics) A two-dimensional array or table of data, usually numbers, of various specific kinds.
noun:  (linguistics, optimality theory) A table that shows constraint violations of a list of candidates given an input and a constraint ranking.
noun:  (card games) Mostly in solitaire card games, but also in other card and board games, the main area, where random cards can be arranged.
noun:  (logic) A semantic tableau.
noun:  (theater) A unit of a play, an opera, or a ballet with change of stage setting.
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