Definitions
Strong cloth used for sails, tents, or painting surfaces.
Word origin
From Middle English canevas, from Anglo-Norman, from Old Northern French canevas (compare Old French chanevas, chenevas) from a root derived from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). Compare French canevas, resulting from a blend of the Old French and a Picard dialect word, itself from Old Northern French. Doublet of cannabis and hemp.
Used in a sentence
“The term canvas is very widely used, as well to denote the coarse fabrics employed for kitchen use, as for strainers, and wraps for meat, as for the best quality of ordinary table and shirting linen.”
“She is painting a moonlight scene on the canvas.”
“Light, rich as that which glows on the canvas of Claude.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Heavy cloth”6 letters
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