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canvas


noun

  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.
  5. sailcloth.
  6. sails collectively.
  7. any fabric of linen, cotton, or hemp of a coarse loose weave used as a foundation for embroidery stitches, interlining, etc.
  8. the floor of a boxing ring traditionally consisting of a canvas covering stretched over a mat.

Trademark.

  1. (initial capital letter) the brand name of an open-source learning management system, launched in 2011.
Idioms

  1. under canvas,
    1. Nautical.with set sails.
    2. in tents; in the field: the troops under canvas.

noun

    1. a heavy durable cloth made of cotton, hemp, or jute, used for sails, tents, etc
    2. (as modifier)a canvas bag
    1. a piece of canvas or a similar material on which a painting is done, usually in oils
    2. a painting on this material, esp in oils
  1. a tent or tents collectively
  2. nautical any cloth of which sails are made
  3. nautical the sails of a vessel collectively
  4. any coarse loosely woven cloth on which embroidery, tapestry, etc, is done
  5. the canvas the floor of a boxing or wrestling ring
  6. rowing the tapering covered part at either end of a racing boat, sometimes referred to as a unit of lengthto win by a canvas
  7. under canvas
    1. in tents
    2. nauticalwith sails unfurled
n.

“sturdy cloth made from hemp or flax,” mid-14c., from Anglo-French canevaz, Old North French canevach, Old French chanevaz, literally “made of hemp, hempen,” noun use of Vulgar Latin adjective *cannapaceus “made of hemp,” from Latin cannabis, from Greek kannabis “hemp,” a Scythian or Thracian word (see cannabis).

Latin adjectives in -aceus sometimes were made in Romanic languages into nouns of augmentative or pejorative force. Especially as a surface for oil paintings from c.1700; hence “an oil painting” (1764).

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