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can⋅vas

  [kan-vuhs]
–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.
5. sailcloth.
6. sails collectively.
7. any fabric of linen, cotton, or hemp of a coarse loose weave used as a foundation for embroidery stitches, interlining, etc.
8. the floor of a boxing ring traditionally consisting of a canvas covering stretched over a mat.
—Idiom
9. under canvas,
a. Nautical. with set sails.
b. in tents; in the field: the troops under canvas.
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Origin:
1225–75; ME canevas < AF, ONF < VL *cannabāceus (n. use of adj.), equiv. to L cannab(is) hemp + -āceus -aceous

Related forms:
can⋅vas⋅like, adjective
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can·vas   (kān'vəs)   
n.  

  1. A heavy, coarse, closely woven fabric of cotton, hemp, or flax, used for tents and sails.

    1. A piece of such fabric on which a painting, especially an oil painting, is executed.

    2. A painting executed on such fabric.

    3. A tent or group of tents.

    4. A circus tent.

  3. A fabric of coarse open weave, used as a foundation for needlework.

  4. The background against which events unfold, as in a historical narrative: a grim portrait of despair against the bright canvas of the postwar economy.

  5. Nautical A sail or set of sails.

    1. A tent or group of tents.

    2. A circus tent.

  7. Sports The floor of a ring in which boxing or wrestling takes place.


[Middle English canevas, from Old French and from Medieval Latin canavāsium, both ultimately from Latin cannabis, hemp; see cannabis.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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