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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Recent Examples of canvas
Outside, men sat under a canvas tent in the street.
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ABC News, 13 Apr. 2026
Maxine used both additive and subtractive painting processes to build textured canvases.
—Emma Allen, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
This canvas bucket hat affords you the choice of two sizes and four colors — hot pink, red, olive green, and beige.
—Claire West, PEOPLE, 12 Apr. 2026
Recent examples include religious paintings by Antonio María Esquivel and oil-on canvas paintings from an anonymous Peruvian artist.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Apr. 2026
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ABC News, 13 Apr. 2026
Maxine used both additive and subtractive painting processes to build textured canvases.
—Emma Allen, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
This canvas bucket hat affords you the choice of two sizes and four colors — hot pink, red, olive green, and beige.
—Claire West, PEOPLE, 12 Apr. 2026
Recent examples include religious paintings by Antonio María Esquivel and oil-on canvas paintings from an anonymous Peruvian artist.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for canvas
painting
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Of that, 1 million euros will be paid to the Opera Gallery, an international art dealership that owns the painting.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 Apr. 2026
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And the gatherings staged at the branches around the county are wide-ranging — from veterans meetings at the Chickasaw branch and a chess club in Winter Garden to acrylic painting in Eatonville and family board games Saturdays at the southeast branch, north of the airport.—
Scott Maxwell,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 Apr. 2026
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