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vəs noun
Idioms 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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| —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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