The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word CANVAS
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More clues leading to the result CANVAS
- Coarse stuff electioneer talked about?
- Mostly survey something to paint on
- Is able to get five to like the artist’s work
- Preserve Virginia’s painting
- Clothremoved from doorstep
- Campaign endlessly for painting
- Unfinished survey material
- Preserve vessel for oil
- Ask about positions, we hear, providing work for painter
- Container vessel’s docked, and sails
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What does CANVAS mean?
CANVAS noun- A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.
- A piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint.
- A basis for creative work.
- A region on which graphics can be rendered.
- Sails in general.
- A tent.
- A painting, or a picture on canvas.
- A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; especially one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make.
- Alternative spelling of canvass.
- To cover an area or object with canvas.
- Alternative spelling of canvass.