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canvas
English
Etymology
From Middle English canevas, from Anglo-Norman, from Old Northern French canevas (compare Old French chanevas, chenevas) from a root derived from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kánnabis). Compare French canevas, resulting from a blend of the Old French and a Picard dialect word, itself from Old Northern French. Doublet of cannabis and hemp.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kæn.v?s/
- (US)
- Homophone: canvass
Noun
canvas (plural canvasses or canvases) (see usage notes)
- A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 556.
- The term canvas is very widely used, as well to denote the coarse fabrics employed for kitchen use, as for strainers, and wraps for meat, as for the best quality of ordinary table and shirting linen.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 556.
- A piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint.
- A mesh of loosely woven cotton strands or molded plastic to be decorated with needlepoint, cross-stitch, rug hooking, or other crafts.
- (figuratively) A basis for creative work.
- The author takes rural midwestern life as a canvas for a series of tightly woven character studies.
- (computer graphics) A region on which graphics can be rendered.
- (nautical) Sails in general.
- A tent.
- He spent the night under canvas.
- A painting, or a picture on canvas.
- 1764, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller
- The canvas glowed, beyond e'en nature warm
- 1764, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller
- 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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Grabb to this entry?)
- Alternative spelling of canvass.
Usage notes
The plural canvases is used primarily in the US, while the plural canvasses is used in the UK and most UK-influenced areas.
Derived terms
- Canvastown
Translations
Verb
canvas (third-person singular simple present canvases, present participle canvasing, simple past and past participle canvased)
- To cover an area or object with canvas.
- Alternative spelling of canvass.
Translations
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch canevas, from Old Northern French canevas, from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kánnabis). The spelling was lated influenced by English canvas.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?n.v?s/
- Hyphenation: can?vas
Noun
canvas n (plural canvassen)
- canvas, sail
- Synonym: zeildoek
- canvas, fabric used for painting
- Synonym: schilderdoek
Related terms
- cannabis
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: kampas
Spanish
Noun
canvas m
- canvas
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waistcloth
English
Etymology
waist +? cloth
Noun
waistcloth (plural waistcloths)
- A cloth or garment worn around the waist.
- (nautical) A covering of canvas or tarpaulin for the hammocks, stowed on the nettings, between the quarterdeck and the forecastle.
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