canvases Definition

canvas
noun canvases

1. A thick heavy coarse cloth, made from hemp or flax, used to make sails, tents, etc and for painting pictures on.
2a. A painting done on a piece of canvas;
2b. A piece of canvas prepared for painting.
3. The sails of a ship.
4. The floor of a boxing or wrestling ring, made from canvas.

Form: the canvas
5. rowing.
Either of the covered end-sections of a rowing boat.

Idiom: under canvas

In tents.

With sails spread.

Etymology: 14c: from French canevas, from Latin cannabis hemp.

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These words are often confused with each other.