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canevas (s.xiii)
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canevas (s.xiii)

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canavace,  canefas,  canevace,  canevaz,  canevesce,  canewas;  canvaç,  canvais,  canveis,  canvas;  chanevaz;  kanevas,  kanevasce,  kanevaz  
  FEW:  cannabis 2/i,212a Gdf:  chanevas 2,53c / chanevace 2,53c GdfC:  chenevas 9,67a TL: chanevaz 2,217 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  canevas  TLF:  canevas  OED:  canvas n.  MED:  canevas n.  DMLBS:  canevacius 257c

s.

textilecanvas (material): 
( MS: s.xiii )  carentivillas: canavaces  TLL ii 149
( 1292-93 )  en une bage de kanevas  Sel Bills Eyre 43
( 1325 )  deuz aunes de canevace  King’s Bench iv 156
♦textilepiece of canvas: 
( MS: s.xv )  fetes le prendre (=squeeze) parmy un kanevaz  Five Med MSS 151.E357
♦textilecanvas covering: 
( a.1323 )  un matresce, une canevesce de yndecarde  Northern Pet 116
( 1364-72 )  trois paire de chauces et un canevace pur son lit’  TNA E101/395/2/43
( 1396; MS: s.xv1 )  blanketz, lincheux […] et un large canvas de chemvre  Man lang ANTS 5.24
( MS: s.xvm )  un canvas de cha[a]nvere  Fr Voc 127
♦wool-pack: 
( 1360-61 )  que tieu canevace ensemblement ové lor corners lor soient alloués  Stats i 368 xix
priendre parmi un canevas
priendre

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colourhempen, hemp-coloured: 
( MS: 1272-82 )  chanevaz, ceo est nent ben rosaz ne ben blauncs  A-N Falconry 94.11

See also:

canevel 
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