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under canvas1In a tent or tents: the family will be living under canvas...- Tents are essentially small stately homes under canvas - teak furniture, proper beds, flush WCs, bucket showers, laundry service.
- Make a tent - recreate the thrill of being under canvas by pegging old sheets or blankets over the washing line or rotary dryer and weighting them at the corners to create a tent.
- Few things are more exciting to children than sleeping under canvas, particularly when there's a beach outside their tent flaps.
2With sails spread: fishermen whose boats still travel under canvas...- In Cuyp's representation the tautness of their bent masts under canvas mimics the bulges of the cows' ribs through their slack hides.
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