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- 1 A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.
"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."
- 2 Obsolete spelling of canvass. alt-of, obsolete
"[…] I haue learned this faſhion of Sᵗ. Hierome the Oracle of Antiquitie, vvho vvas vvont to entertaine his Paula, and Euſtochium, Marcella, Principia, Hedibia, and other deuout Ladies, vvith learned canuaſes of the deep pointes of Diuinity."
- 3 a heavy, closely woven fabric wordnet
- 4 A piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint.
- 5 the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete wordnet
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- 6 A mesh of loosely woven cotton strands or molded plastic to be decorated with needlepoint, cross-stitch, rug hooking, or other crafts.
- 7 an oil painting on canvas fabric wordnet
- 8 A basis for creative work. figuratively
"The author takes rural midwestern life as a canvas for a series of tightly woven character studies"
- 9 a tent made of canvas fabric wordnet
- 10 A region on which graphics can be rendered.
- 11 a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel wordnet
- 12 Sails in general.
"The double desire of being able to overtake a weaker flying enemy, or to escape when pursued by a stronger, has induced the owners to overmast their cruisers, and to spread too much canvass; and the great number of men, many of them not seamen, who being upon deck when a ship heels suddenly are huddled down to leeward, and increase by their weight the effect of the wind."
- 13 the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account wordnet
- 14 A tent.
"He spent the night under canvas."
- 15 A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; especially one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make.
- 16 Athletic shoes. Nigeria
- 1 To cover (an area or object) with canvas. transitive
- 2 Obsolete spelling of canvass. alt-of, obsolete
"And with the aunſwere here vpon eftſoones in hand they go, / The doubtfull wordes wherof they ſcan and canuas to and fro."
- 3 cover with canvas wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English canevas, from Anglo-Norman, from Old Northern French canevas (compare Old French chanevas, chenevas) from a root derived from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). Compare French canevas, resulting from a blend of the Old French and a Picard dialect word, itself from Old Northern French. Doublet of cannabis and hemp.
From Middle English canevas, from Anglo-Norman, from Old Northern French canevas (compare Old French chanevas, chenevas) from a root derived from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). Compare French canevas, resulting from a blend of the Old French and a Picard dialect word, itself from Old Northern French. Doublet of cannabis and hemp.
A variant of canvass.
A variant of canvass.
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