Canvas
Canvas , noun
[Old English canvas, canevas, French canevas, Late Latin canabacius hempen cloth, canvas, Latin cannabis hemp, from German {not transcribed}. See Hemp.]
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) A coarse cloth so woven as to form regular meshes for working with the needle, as in tapestry, or worsted work.
(b)
A piece of strong cloth of which the surface has been prepared to receive painting, commonly painting in oil.
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. — Grabb
Canvas , adjective
Made of, pertaining to, or resembling, canvas or coarse cloth; as, a canvas tent.