white canvas

collocation in English

meaningsofwhiteandcanvas

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white
adjective
uk
/waɪt/us
/waɪt/
of a colour like that of snow, milk, ...
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canvas
noun
uk
/ˈkæn.vəs/us
/ˈkæn.vəs/
strong, rough cloth used for making tents, sails, bags, strong ...
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(Definition ofwhiteandcanvasfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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However, this wall is not a blankwhitecanvas, and variations in the colour and texture of the concrete itself add further interest.
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They also bit me freely throughwhitecanvasleggings and khaki breeches.
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Jongeleen however doesn't cover thewhitecanvaswith paint.
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Most temporal stalls within a night market havewhitecanvastops and bright lights.
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Thewhitecanvasleggings continued to be worn without darkening, until after the war.
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He was known for his unusual style, most notably for painting on a black canvas instead of the traditionalwhitecanvas.
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The students wear black formal shoes with the formal uniform andwhitecanvasshoes with the sports uniform.
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In their performance there are contributions from various kinds of musicians but on stage they usually appear as a duet behind a bigwhitecanvas.
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The geologists lived inwhitecanvastents and would often go three months in the remote wilderness without a shower or radio.
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Red and black vertical stripes on awhitecanvaslooked noble.
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Within each project, tasks and to dos are represented by colourful free-floating circles on awhitecanvas.
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His most famous paintings consisted of a purewhitecanvaswith grid of vertical and horizontal black lines and rectangles of primary colors.
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Whitecanvasleggings were worn by non-mounted personnel with both white and blue uniforms until 1906.
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He wears white loafers in the movies, not adoptingwhitecanvastennis shoes permanently until the series.
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This may be partly because subtractive mixing of the pigments is avoided, and partly because some of thewhitecanvasmay be showing between the applied dots.
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A significant development in the series came with the lateral extension of the picture format, the figure positioned to one side of an abstract expanse ofwhitecanvas.
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