noun 1. a thick cloth for making things such as tents or sails ○ He was wearing a pair of old canvas shoes. 2. a painting ○ three canvases by Picasso (NOTE: The plural is canvases. Do not confuse with canvass.)
can´vas
n. [OE. canvas, canevas, F. canevas, LL. canabacius hempen cloth, canvas L. cannabis hemp, fr. G. . See Hemp.]
1. A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; — used for tents, sails, etc. “By glimmering lanes and walls of canvas led.
Tennyson.”
2. (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.
J. H. Newman.”
3. 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.
Goldsmith.” “Light, rich as that which glows on the canvas of Claude.
Macaulay.”
4. 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. Grabb.
1. A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; — used for tents, sails, etc. “By glimmering lanes and walls of canvas led.
Tennyson.”
2. (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.
J. H. Newman.”
3. 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.
Goldsmith.” “Light, rich as that which glows on the canvas of Claude.
Macaulay.”
4. 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. Grabb.
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