English-French translations for canvas

toile
Dans nos villes, nous avons des familles qui vivent sous des toiles. In our cities we have families living under canvas. Cependant, la toile qui est actuellement couverte par ce voile doit encore être peinte dans sa majeure partie. However, most of the canvas which is currently covered by that veil has still to be painted. L'art ne consiste pas à s'asseoir et à badigeonner une toile - je le fais moi-même pendant mes loisirs - je me sens donc en mesure de porter un certain jugement. Not everything which someone sits down and daubs on a canvas is art - I paint in my spare time, incidentally, and that is why I venture my opinion.
bâche

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 region on which graphics can be rendered
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
To cover an area or object with canvas

The author takes rural midwestern life as a canvas for a series of tightly woven character studies
He spent the night under canvas

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