Canvas



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解释

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• n. 帆布, 画布
• ［英］ 帆布, 画布 ( strong coarse cloth used for making tents, sails, and by artists for painting on)

Webster Collegiate

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, or cotton used for clothing and formerly much used for tents and sails
• 2. a set of sails ; sail
• 3. a piece of canvas used for a particular purpose
• 4. tent; also a group of tents
• 5.
  • a. a piece of cloth backed or framed as a surface for a painting; also the painting on such a surface
  • b. the background, setting, or scope of a historical or fictional account or narrative
• 6. a coarse cloth so woven as to form regular meshes for working with the needle
• 7. the canvas-covered floor of a boxing or wrestling ring
• ? canvaslike adjective

II. transitive verb (-vased or -vassed; -vasing or -vassing)

• Date: 1556
• to cover, line, or furnish with canvas

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