Vải bạt

Lều; buồm (làm bằng vải bạt)

under canvas

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N. & v.

N.

A a strong coarse kind of cloth made from hempor flax or other coarse yarn and used for sails and tents etc.and as a surface for oil-painting. b a piece of this.

Apainting on canvas, esp. in oils.

An open kind of canvas usedas a basis for tapestry and embroidery.

Sl. the floor of aboxing or wrestling ring.

A racing-boat's covered end.

V.tr. (canvassed, canvassing; US canvased, canvasing) coverwith canvas.

By a canvas (in boat-racing) by a small margin(win by a canvas). canvas-back a wild duck Aythya valisineria,of N. America, with back feathers the colour of unbleachedcanvas. under canvas 1 in a tent or tents.

With sailsspread. [ME & ONF canevas, ult. f. L cannabis hemp]