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canvas

[kan-vuhs] / ˈkæn vəs /


NOUN
painting on coarse material
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Louis Vuitton, whose canvas bags powered decades of growth, launched the Capucines in 2013, a structured leather handbag named after Paris street where Louis Vuitton opened his first store.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Levine started by poring over the canvas in granular detail, particularly what he could see of the signature: J. Schul.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Pantoja managed to take Van down to the canvas again and worked from the top for much of the round, showing that he could still trouble the champion when he managed to impose his style.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

Then he eyed the canvas tote bag where I’d stashed a notepad and some audio gear.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

The ocean is getting captured in the canvas and leaving nothing behind in return.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

The lawsuit also accuses two men in Peru of painting fakes bearing Warhol’s signature and shipping canvases resembling Warhol’s 1983 portfolio of endangered species to Roberts’s gallery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

Renoir is celebrated for his light-dappled canvases capturing 19th-century European leisure, high society and timeless figurative studies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Although his canvases typically sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars, when he completed a large mural for the Palestinian Museum, his requested fee was only a fig tree to be planted in the garden.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Breakfast burritos in L.A. are canvases for individual creative expression, innovations that graft global cuisines or basic energy bombs to fuel the day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

She looked at the paintings in Auntie Seema's apartment, canvases of all sizes leaning against the walls.

From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi




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