canvas
/ˈkæn.vəs/ verb C2- To cover (an area or object) with canvas.
He/she/it canvases · Past canvased · Past participle canvased · -ing form canvasing
Verb forms
- Base form
- canvas
- He/she/it
- canvases
- Past
- canvased
- Past participle
- canvased
- -ing form
- canvasing
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They had a large canvas bag, which tied up at the mouth with strings: into this they slipped the guinea-pig, head first, and then sat upon it.)
Every idea that had been brought forward by the housekeeper was favourable to his character; and as she stood before the canvas, on which he was represented, and fixed his eyes upon herself, she thought of his regard with a deeper sentiment of gratitude than it had ever raised before: she remembered its warmth, and softened its impropriety of expression.
“There’s no doubt about the authenticity, for the name and the date, 1647, are on the back of the canvas.”
The face of Stapleton had sprung out of the canvas.
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