noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a leather/canvas bag
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She was carrying a smart leather bag.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
large
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A large canvas of poppies provides a particularly attractive example of this aspect of her work.
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On a large canvas the successive stages of this incident were rendered in muddy greens and browns.
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In this large canvas: Seurat varied the method considerably.
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Peter Gaskell shuffled through in his oversized wellingtons, a large empty canvas bag flapping against his knees.
white
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She dressed quickly in a white canvas skirt and navy cotton T-shirt.
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Leslie, the older one, had tied a white canvas sack around his shoulder.
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Alice saw on the desk that there was a white canvas bag in which stacks of notes had already been put.
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Dressed in a white canvas slipcover, it has moved to the bed and bathrooms.
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Should the white canvas and the costume pearls be insincerely praised?
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The traditional awning, white canvas with black edges, fluttered in the breeze.
wide
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However, as I suggested in Chapter 1, the basic assumptions of Beccaria's classical model suggest a much wider canvas .
■ NOUN
bag
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A white towel hung over its back and on the seat rested a brown canvas bag , its zip open.
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He had brought the canvas bag with him.
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In the afternoons she lay on the bed with the canvas bag beside her.
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He fished out some long canvas bags from the barn and told me the picking started at dawn.
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She has a 131 canvas bag , so perhaps there's something more suitable in that.
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On the floor of the last room stood a tall canvas bag laced at the top.
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The canvas bag she was carrying was awkward too and banged against her legs, threatening to trip her up.
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Neblett agrees and says he uses canvas bags on his shopping forays.
chair
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Two canvas chairs were placed side by side in a machine that begged comparison with the Wright brothers' first efforts.
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The man in the canvas chair threw his Daily Variety to the floor.
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He found him sitting in his canvas chair beside a brazier, drinking Guinness with the chief armourer.
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Two puddles take the sun in ribbon-patterned canvas chairs .
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Two small canvas chairs were produced.
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He is sitting at our camp now, holding a mug of our tea, relaxing on a canvas chair .
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Near the fountain several people sat on canvas chairs , sewing.
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This was just the ticket, I thought, sitting on my canvas chair , quietly digesting my cake.
sheet
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She stared in horror at the whitened, frozen cadavers which lay there under a tattered, canvas sheet .
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The mast had come down, but rags of the canvas sheets remained.
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Two servants, their mouths and noses covered by rags, removed Cosmas's remains in a canvas sheet .
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He had laid out a great canvas sheet before him, bearing different phials and small bowls.
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The two bodies lay under canvas sheets on wickerwork mats supported by wooden trestles.
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The area was screened by khaki canvas sheets .
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He ignored Sir Ralph's corpse but lifted back the insignia over the hospitaller's and the canvas sheet which lay underneath.
shoe
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The ground was soft and spongy and in only a few paces her canvas shoes were soaked.
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And don't I tell you not to break the back down and wear your canvas shoes like slippers?
■ VERB
paint
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They painted the mural-like canvas that stretches along one whole wall.
put
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What do you expect an artist to put on his canvas ?
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They were put in canvas sacks and taken to the church in Godstowe for burial.
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My husband recollect when they used to climb up the stocks to put the owd canvas sails on the mill.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And from somewhere beneath a cupboard she produced an enormous canvas draped in a sheet and showed it to me.
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He had brought the canvas bag with him.
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He tried out the Helen Frankenthaler technique of staining raw canvas with diluted paint.
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Painting on wall or canvas as dream of plenitude, painting on glass as revelation of potential in poverty.
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Some artists prefer the springy sensitivity of an open canvas whilst others prefer the hardness or smoothness of a board.
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The man in the canvas chair threw his Daily Variety to the floor.
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This was not the fluid, precise canvas of the Cal victory.