canvas (n.) “sturdy cloth made from hemp or flax,” mid-14c., from Anglo-French canevaz, Old North French canevach, Old French chanevaz, literally “made of hemp, hempen,” noun use of Vulgar Latin adjective *cannapaceus “made of hemp,” from Latin cannabis, from Greek kannabis “hemp,” a Scythian or Thracian word (see cannabis).
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