Canvas /(?)/

Can·vas

Canvas

n.
  1. A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; -- used for tents, sails, etc.
    By glimmering lanes and walls of canvas led.
  2. A coarse cloth so woven as to form regular meshes for working with the needle, as in tapestry, or worsted work.
    History . . . does not bring out clearly upon the canvas the details which were familiar.
  3. Something for which canvas is used: (a) A sail, or a collection of sails. (b) A tent, or a collection of tents. (c) A painting, or a picture on canvas.
    To suit his canvas to the roughness of the see.
    Light, rich as that which glows on the canvas of Claude.
  4. A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; esp. one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make.

Canvas

a.
  1. Made of, pertaining to, or resembling, canvas or coarse cloth; as, a canvas tent.