canvas

Signification (Anglais)

1. A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.
2. A piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint.
3. A painting, or a picture on canvas.
4. A mesh of loosely woven cotton strands or molded plastic to be decorated with needlepoint, cross-stitch, rug hooking, or other crafts.
5. A basis for creative work.
6. A region on which graphics can be rendered.
7. Sails in general.
8. A tent.
9. 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.
10. Athletic shoes.

toile

canevas

faire du porte à-porte

de toile

canevasser

canvas tent

sail cloth

ravel out

soft goods

negociate

puzzle over

hemp cloth

coarse cloth

sail-cloth

tent fly

colorway

denim or other stiff

densely woven cloth

Fréquence

Coupé comme

can‧vas

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈkænvəs/

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.