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can·vas C0079300 (kăn′vəs)n.1. A heavy, coarse, closely woven fabric of cotton, hemp, or flax, traditionally used for tents and sails.2. a. A piece of such fabric on which a painting, especially an oil painting, is executed.b. A painting executed on such fabric.3. A fabric of coarse open weave, used as a foundation for needlework.4. The background against which events unfold, as in a historical narrative: a grim portrait of despair against the bright canvas of the postwar economy.5. Nautical A sail or set of sails.6. a. A tent or group of tents.b. A circus tent.7. Sports The floor of a ring in which boxing or wrestling takes place.Idiom: under canvas1. Nautical With sails spread.2. In a tent or tents.
[Middle English canevas, from Old French and from Medieval Latin canavāsium, both ultimately from Latin cannabis, hemp; see cannabis.]Translationscanvas (ˈkӕnvəs) – plural ˈcanvases – noun1. (also adjective) (of) a coarse cloth made of hemp or flax etc, used for sails, tents etc, and for painting on. canvas sails. 粗帆布，油畫布 粗帆布，油画布 2. (a piece of canvas for) a painting. He painted twenty canvases. 一幅油畫 一幅油画under canvas in tents. living under canvas. 在帆布帳篷內 过帐蓬生活的under canvas
under canvasUnder or within a tent. There are dozens of vendors who sell their goods under canvas at our market each Saturday.See also: canvas under canvas1. Nautical With sails spread.2. In a tent or tents.See also: canvasEncyclopediaSeecanvas |