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canevas.

canvas; tapestry

7 characters3 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

noun/kan.va//kan.vɑ/
  1. canvas; tapestry

    invariable · masculine
  2. framework

    invariable · masculine
  3. network

    invariable · masculine
Where this word comes from

From a combination of Old French chanevas, chenevas and Old Picard canevach. The Old French comes from a root ultimately derived from Latin *canapus, from cannabis, such as that of chanvre, possibly through a Vulgar Latin root *cannabāceus or *cannapāceus, and the Old Picard comes from Old Northern French canevas, of ultimately the same origin as the previous word. Compare English canvas, itself borrowed from Old Northern French through Anglo-Norman.

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