canvas: meaning and definitions
EnglishType a word
A heavy, coarse, closely woven fabric of cotton, hemp, or flax, used for tents and sails.
A piece of such fabric on which a painting, especially an oil painting, is executed.
A painting executed on such fabric.
A fabric of coarse open weave, used as a foundation for needlework.
The background against which events unfold, as in a historical narrative: a grim portrait of despair against the bright canvas of the postwar economy.
Nautical A sail or set of sails.
A tent or group of tents.
Sports The floor of a ring in which boxing or wrestling takes place.
under canvas Nautical With sails spread.
under canvas In a tent or tents.