Plural of canvas

Forms of canvas

Canvases and canvasses in a sentence

• Basquiat's epic-size, experimental canvases betray his radical determination to blackwash not solely history but art history.2019, Celeste-Marie Bernier, Stick to the Skin, page 102. From the entry blackwash
• Rumor once had it that Larry Poons used a catapultlike device to hurl paint onto upright canvases.2008 February 8, Roberta Smith, “Art in Review”, in New York Times. From the entry catapultlike
• The narrowness of the imagination of the old masters is generally depicted in their canvases.1908, Harold McGraff, chapter 27, in The Lure of the Mask. From the entry pearly gates
• She daymared through each one, painting dark, almost black canvases with indistinguishable figures floating in a stormy sky.2007, Michele Zackheim, Broken Colors, Europa Editions, →ISBN, page 41. From the entry daymare
• He went over his canvases with disgust and anger, unable to see virtue in any one of them.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 133. From the entry vitiate

Meaning of canvas

1. noun A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp (traditionally) or from cotton and polyesters, useful for making sails, tents, and overcoats or as a surface for paintings.
2. noun A piece of such cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint an artwork.
3. noun A mesh of loosely woven cotton strands or molded plastic to be decorated with needlepoint, cross-stitch, rug hooking, or other crafts.

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Questions about the plural of canvas

What is the plural of canvas?

The plural of canvas is canvases or canvasses.

Which is correct, canvases or canvasses?

Both are used. canvases is the more common of the two in English writing.

Is canvas countable?

Canvas is a countable noun.