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• Canvas — is an extremely heavy duty plain woven fabric used for making sails, tents, marquees, backpacks, and other functions where sturdiness is required. It is also popularly used as a painting surface, typically stretched, and on fashion handbags and… …   Wikipedia

• canvas — [kan′vəs] n. [ME & OFr canevas < It canavaccio < VL * cannapaceum, hempen cloth < L cannabis, HEMP] 1. a closely woven, coarse cloth of hemp, cotton, or linen, often unbleached, used for tents, sails, etc. 2. a sail or set of sails 3. a) …   English World dictionary

• canvas — canvaslike, adj. /kan veuhs/, n. 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 …   Universalium

• canvas —    Commonly used as a support a swatch of canvasfor oil or acrylic painting, canvas is a heavy woven fabric made of flax or cotton. Its surface is typically prepared for painting by priming with a ground. Linen made of flax is the standard canvas …   Glossary of Art Terms

• canvas — can•vas [[t]ˈkæn vəs[/t]] n. 1) tex a closely woven, heavy cloth of cotton, hemp, or linen, used esp. 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… …   From formal English to slang

• canvas — /ˈkænvəs / (say kanvuhs) noun 1. a closely woven, heavy cloth of hemp, flax, or cotton, used for tents, sails, etc. 2. a piece of this material on which an oil painting is made. 3. an oil painting on canvas. 4. a tent, or tents collectively:… …  

• canvas — 1. noun /ˈkæn.vəs/ a) A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings. The term canvas is very widely used, as well to denote the coarse fabrics employed for kitchen use, as for strainers,… …   Wiktionary

• canvas — I. noun also canvass Etymology: Middle English canevas, from Anglo French canevas, chanevaz, from Vulgar Latin *cannabaceus hempen, from Latin cannabis hemp more at cannabis Date: 13th century 1. a firm closely woven cloth usually of linen, hemp …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• linen —    A cloth woven from thread made from fibers of the flax plant. Although it has been used in many ways, linen has been an especially desireable support for painting. As such it is one of several textiles that may be called canvas …   Glossary of Art Terms

• roman canvas — noun Usage: usually capitalized R : a fine linen canvas primed on one side for oil painting …   Useful english dictionary

• Cotton duck — (from Dutch doek, linen canvas ), also simply duck, sometimes duck cloth or duck canvas, commonly called canvas outside the textile industry, is a heavy, plain woven cotton fabric. There is also linen duck, which is less often used. Duck is used… …   Wikipedia