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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However, your feet won’t overheat thanks to the shoe's 100 percent cotton canvas upper, which helps your feet breathe on hot days.
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Caroline Hughes, Travel + Leisure, 6 June 2026
In Wake-Keeper (2026), a roughly four-by-five-foot canvas, a pious man draped in the red cloth of traditional Ghanaian funeral attire sits on a stool with his hands clasped, his body facing the left side of the frame.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2026
His heart and hope lie inside a grey warehouse a few miles from Highway 34 in Weld County, his heaven a canvas of black netting and neon-green paint.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 6 June 2026
Another document details exactly how to create a Patriot Front banner – down to how to tie the knots affixing the canvas.
—Will Carless, USA Today, 4 June 2026
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Caroline Hughes, Travel + Leisure, 6 June 2026
In Wake-Keeper (2026), a roughly four-by-five-foot canvas, a pious man draped in the red cloth of traditional Ghanaian funeral attire sits on a stool with his hands clasped, his body facing the left side of the frame.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2026
His heart and hope lie inside a grey warehouse a few miles from Highway 34 in Weld County, his heaven a canvas of black netting and neon-green paint.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 6 June 2026
Another document details exactly how to create a Patriot Front banner – down to how to tie the knots affixing the canvas.
—Will Carless, USA Today, 4 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for canvas
painting
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Baer beautifully evokes paintings inspired by the work of outsider artist Henry Darger.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2026
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Adam and Eve After Cranach, 1971, an acrylic diptych modeled on Lucas Cranach the Elder’s 1526 painting of the titular couple.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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