variants
also canvass
as in painting
a picture created with oil paint
one canvas by Picasso is worth more money than most of us can imagine
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The pebbled leather bag features canvas handles and an adjustable, detachable strap that can be slung over your shoulder.
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Melony Forcier, Travel + Leisure, 31 Oct. 2025
The handmade pottery also happens to make a beautiful canvas for the blue (er, Nu Bleu) designs.
—Emily Farris, Bon Appetit Magazine, 31 Oct. 2025
Previous gallery@ projects have included developing a custom Circulose denim canvas for Kiril Jeliazkov’s Lamborghini 60th Anniversary painting in partnership with Treun House Atelier and Automobili Lamborghini.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 30 Oct. 2025
No shearling or fleece in sight, this one is instead covered in a smooth, canvas-like material.
—Erika Owen, Architectural Digest, 30 Oct. 2025
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Melony Forcier, Travel + Leisure, 31 Oct. 2025
The handmade pottery also happens to make a beautiful canvas for the blue (er, Nu Bleu) designs.
—Emily Farris, Bon Appetit Magazine, 31 Oct. 2025
Previous gallery@ projects have included developing a custom Circulose denim canvas for Kiril Jeliazkov’s Lamborghini 60th Anniversary painting in partnership with Treun House Atelier and Automobili Lamborghini.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 30 Oct. 2025
No shearling or fleece in sight, this one is instead covered in a smooth, canvas-like material.
—Erika Owen, Architectural Digest, 30 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for canvas
painting
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With an absence of primary source footage or even photographs, The American Revolution relies heavily on familiar Burnsian tracking shots and zooms on paintings.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Nov. 2025
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The daughter of Veronica Hearst, one of her era’s most stylish society swans, she was raised in a lavish Fifth Avenue apartment designed by Renzo Mongiardino featuring columns, tapestries, and Old Master paintings.—
Derek Blasberg,
Architectural Digest,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Canvas.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/canvas. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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