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A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.
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A piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint.
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A basis for creative work.
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The author takes rural midwestern life as a canvas for a series of tightly woven character studies.
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A region on which graphics can be rendered.
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Sails in general.
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A tent.
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He spent the night under canvas.
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A painting, or a picture on canvas.
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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.
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Alternative spelling of canvass.