stencil vs tableau

stencil

noun
  • A two-ply master sheet for use with a mimeograph. 

  • A thin sheet, either perforated or using some other technique, with which a pattern may be produced upon a surface; a utensil that contains a perforated sheet. 

  • A pattern produced using such a utensil. 

verb
  • To print with a stencil. 

tableau

noun
  • A semantic tableau. 

  • unit of a play, an opera or a ballet with change of stage setting. 

  • A two-dimensional array or table of data, usually numbers, of various specific kinds. 

  • A vivid graphic scene of a group of people arranged as in a painting or bas relief sculpture. 

  • A table that shows constraint violations of a list of candidates given an input and a constraint ranking. 

  • A striking and vivid representation; a picture. 

  • Mostly in solitaire card games, but also in other card and board games, the main area, where random cards can be arranged. 

How often have the words stencil and tableau occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )