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canvas

[kan-vuhs] / ˈkæn vəs /


NOUN
painting on coarse material
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Showtime’s “Twin Peaks: The Return,” which aired 18 episodes in 2017, was the most maximalist farewell imaginable, the kind of enormous canvas on which Lynch had always hoped to compose.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

They merely project modern anxieties onto the canvas of an imagined ancient Rome.

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026

A maid of honor to the queen passes the time with canvas work.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

Playing a confounding, cantankerous old painter who hasn’t touched a canvas in at least 20 years, Mr. McKellen delivers yet another marvelous late-career highlight.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

Painted not on canvas but on wood, surrounded by an antique frame and glass, the whole thing weighed in at almost two hundred pounds.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day




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