canvas
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Etymology[edit]
From Anglo-Norman, from Old Northern French canevas (compare Old French chanevas, chenevas) from a root ultimately derived from Latin cannabis, possibly a Vulgar Latin *cannabāceus or *cannapāceus. Cf. French canevas, resulting from a blend of the Old French and a Picard dialect word, itself from Old Northern French.
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Noun[edit]
canvas (plural (UK) canvasses, (US) canvases)
- A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 556.
- The term canvas is very widely used, as well to denote the coarse fabrics employed for kitchen use, as for strainers, and wraps for meat, as for the best quality of ordinary table and shirting linen. \
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 556.
- A piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint.
- A basis for creative work.
- The author takes rural midwestern life as a canvas for a series of tightly woven character studies.
- (computer graphics) A region on which graphics can be rendered.
- (nautical) sails in general
- A tent.
- He spent the night under canvas.
- Alternative spelling of canvass.
Translations[edit]
a type of coarse cloth
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a piece of canvas cloth on which one may paint
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Verb[edit]
canvas (third-person singular simple present canvases, present participle canvasing, simple past and past participle canvased)
- To cover an area or object with canvas.
- Alternative spelling of canvass.
