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noun

Canvas n.

A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; used for tents, sails, etc. "By glimmering lanes and walls of canvas led."

(a)

A coarse cloth so woven as to form regular meshes for working with the needle, as in tapestry, or worsted work.

(b)

A piece of strong cloth of which the surface has been prepared to receive painting, commonly painting in oil. "History... does not bring out clearly upon the canvas the details which were familiar."

Something for which canvas is used:

(a)

A sail, or a collection of sails.

(b)

A tent, or a collection of tents.

(c)

A painting, or a picture on canvas. "To suit his canvas to the roughness of the see." "Light, rich as that which glows on the canvas of Claude."

A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; esp. one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make.

adjective

Canvas adj. Made of, pertaining to, or resembling, canvas or coarse cloth; as, a canvas tent.

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Etymology of 'Canvas'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Canvas" Quotes from Famous Books

... moral place certainly; nor a merry one, though very noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before he sits down to dinner with his wife and the little Jack Puddings behind the canvas. The curtain will be up presently, and he will be turning over head and heels, and crying, "How ...

— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray

... he did seem to care for was that if the infidel woman chose to persist in coming on deck, the canvas screen—which had been washed overboard—should be restored. This was done, and Madame de Bourke was assisted to a couch that had been prepared for her with cloaks, where the air revived her a little; but she listened with a faint smile to the assurances of Arthur, backed by Hebert, ...

— A Modern Telemachus • Charlotte M. Yonge

... originality and genius, they may perhaps be thought to have less of the faultless finish and high polish which distinguish the latter. The characters of the John Dashwoods, Mr. Collins, and the Thorpes stand out from the canvas with a vigour and originality which cannot be surpassed; but I think that in her last three works are to be found a greater refinement of taste, a more nice sense of propriety, and a deeper insight into the delicate anatomy of the human heart, marking the difference between the brilliant ...

— Memoir of Jane Austen • James Edward Austen-Leigh

... sir; the boat had canvas over its woodwork. I am afraid, sir, that, if I saw the same boat in daylight, I couldn't positively ...

— Uncle Sam's Boys as Lieutenants - or, Serving Old Glory as Line Officers • H. Irving Hancock

... meadow-land about the house, to the dark shelter of the pine grove at the north. The sun struck full upon the long levels of the boughs, and kindled their needles to a glistening mass; underneath, the ground was red, and through the warm-looking twilight of the sparse wood the gray canvas of a tent showed; Matt often slept there in the summer, and so the place was called the camp. There was a hammock between two of the trees, just beyond the low stone wall, and Louise saw Maxwell ...

— The Quality of Mercy • W. D. Howells

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