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canvas

[kan-vuhs] / ˈkæn vəs /


NOUN
painting on coarse material
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Painted after Artemisia returned to Rome after several years in Florence, the roughly life-size, seated figure is folded elegantly into the rectangle of the canvas.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Dubois set up a knockdown with a sharp double jab followed by a left hook, sending Harper to the canvas.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

His canvas was vast and so were his themes, chief among them a clear-eyed assessment of that part of the nation so essential to the formation of America’s national identity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

There almost everything serves as a canvas, including painted trash doubling as decor and the silkscreened couch on which he’s seated.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026

Just a project I started in my after-school drawing club, which turned into a small canvas painting.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day




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