CANVAS

Canvas

Canvas is an extremely heavy-duty plain-woven fabric used for making sails, tents, marquees, backpacks, and other items for which sturdiness is required. It is also popularly used by artists as a painting surface, typically stretched across a wooden frame. It is also used in such fashion objects as handbags, electronic device cases and shoes.

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canvas

Noun


  1. A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.
  2. A piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint.
  3. A basis for creative work.
    The author takes rural midwestern life as a canvas for a series of tightly woven character studies.
  4. A region on which graphics can be rendered.
  5. sails in general
  6. A tent.
    He spent the night under canvas.
  7. A painting, or a picture on canvas.
  8. 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.

Verb

  1. To cover an area or object with canvas.


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