canvasful
canvasful noun: the contents of a canvas; the content of a painting on a canvas.
Noun
canvasful (plural canvasfuls)
- The contents of a canvas; the content of a painting on a canvas.
- When I see him at his easel, so neat and quiet, so unpretending and modest in himself, with such a composed expression on his attentive face, with such a weak white hand to guide such bold, big brushes, and when I look at the frightful canvasful of terrors which he is serenely aggravating in...1890, Wilkie Collins, The Queen of Hearts
- How could one man's brush and hand, with his personal vision behind them, color a canvasful of sea and sky and human forms, and make of it but a decoration, beautiful, vibrant, shallow . . . while another's brush flung three heavy indignant-looking apples on a gray plate, with a napkin underneath...1936, Cora Hardy Jarrett, Strange Houses, page 43
Examples of canvasful in a sentence
- She gave the painting, a vigorous canvasful of amorphous shapes in blues and blue greens, a moment's impartial inspection.1947, Robeson Bailey, Techniques in article-writing, page 122:
- On Martha's Vineyard, Summer 1962 is a canvasful of brushstrokes and scumblings, some wet into wet, some dry-brushed, with accidental runs of thinned paint allowed to remain.2003, Frank Jewett Mather, Frederic Fairchild Sherman, Art in America - Volume 91, page 121:
Forms of canvasful
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Origin of canvasful
From canvas + -ful.
Questions about canvasful
- What does canvasful mean?
- Canvasful means the contents of a canvas; the content of a painting on a canvas.
- How do you use canvasful in a sentence?
- She gave the painting, a vigorous canvasful of amorphous shapes in blues and blue greens, a moment's impartial inspection.
- What part of speech is canvasful?
- Canvasful is a noun.
- What is the plural of canvasful?
- The plural of canvasful is canvasfuls.
Words near canvasful in the dictionary
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