canvas.
A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp (traditionally) or from cotton and polyesters, useful for making sails, tents, and overcoats or as a surface for paintings.
Meaning & usage
A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp (traditionally) or from cotton and polyesters, useful for making sails, tents, and overcoats or as a surface for paintings.
A piece of such cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint an artwork.
She is painting a moonlight scene on the canvas.
A mesh of loosely woven cotton strands or molded plastic to be decorated with needlepoint, cross-stitch, rug hooking, or other crafts.
A basis for creative work.
The author takes rural midwestern life as a canvas for a series of tightly woven character studies
A region on which graphics can be rendered.
Sails in general.
A tent.
He spent the night under canvas.
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.
Athletic shoes.
Where this word comes from
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.
To cover (an area or object) with canvas.
Where this word comes from
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.
Obsolete spelling of canvass.
Where this word comes from
A variant of canvass.
Obsolete spelling of canvass.
Where this word comes from
A variant of canvass.
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