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vəs noun
1.
a closely woven, heavy cloth of cotton, hemp, or linen, used for tents, sails, etc.
2.
a piece of this or similar material on which a painting is made.
3.
a painting on canvas.
4.
a tent, or tents collectively.
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canvas (ˈkænvəs) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a. a heavy durable cloth made of cotton, hemp, or jute, used for sails, tents, etc |
| b. (as modifier): a canvas bag | |
| 2. | a. a piece of canvas or a similar material on which a painting is done, usually in oils |
| b. a painting on this material, esp in oils | |
| 3. | a tent or tents collectively |
| 4. | nautical any cloth of which sails are made |
| 5. | nautical the sails of a vessel collectively |
| 6. | any coarse loosely woven cloth on which embroidery, tapestry, etc, is done |
| 7. | the canvas the floor of a boxing or wrestling ring |
| 8. | rowing the tapering covered part at either end of a racing boat, sometimes referred to as a unit of length: to win by a canvas |
| 9. | under canvas |
| a. in tents | |
| b. nautical with sails unfurled | |
| [C14: from Norman French canevas, ultimately from Latin cannabis hemp] | |
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Word Origin & History
canvas
1260, from Anglo-Fr. canevaz, from O.Fr. canevas, from V.L. *cannapaceus "made of hemp," from L. cannabis, from Gk. kannabis "hemp," a Scythian or Thracian word. Canvas-back as a type of N.Amer. duck is from 1785.
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When they cannot say what they feel in their painting, they resort to simply writing words about what they feel on the canvas.
He was barefoot, wearing only white canvas shorts and a floppy hat, which he'd decorated with a long plume of feathers.
As soon as he wakes in the morning, he splashes his dreams on canvas before the memory fades.
It is not so much the canvas as the framework upon which he has woven and stretched a romantic piece of modern embroidery.
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