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canvas

[kan-vuhs] / ˈkæn vəs /


NOUN
painting on coarse material
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Bread pudding is essentially a blank canvas for whatever bits and bobs are floating around your kitchen waiting for purpose.

From Salon • May 25, 2026

Sometimes it is the details that best illustrate the broader canvas.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

This year’s abstract dress code, “Fashion Is Art,” encourages guests to treat the body as a canvas and “to express their own relationship to fashion as an embodied art form.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

Rubens was one of the last Baroque artists to paint on wood as well as canvas.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

She’d bewitched England while she was alive, and on canvas she had the same magnetic effect.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day




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