1 [U] a strong heavy rough fabric used for making tents, sails, etc. and by artists for painting on
2 [C] a piece of canvas used for painting on; a painting done on a piece of canvas, using oil paints:
a sale of the artist's early canvases
IDIOMS
under canvas in a tent:
They spent the night under canvas.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for canvas is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is canvas a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, canvas is tagged as noun.
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