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Re: [VACList] Vintage Look Awning

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Subject: Re: [VACList] Vintage Look Awning
From: schuetzen - RKBA! <chasm@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 23:44:24 -0600
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 1. A strong or coarse unbleached cloth made of hemp or flax, used (in different
forms) as the material for sails of ships, for tents, and by painters for
oil-paintings, formerly also for clothing, etc.
 
  1260 et seq. in Rogers Agric. & Pr. II. 511. c1325 Coer de L. 2645 A melle he
hadde..Four sayles wer theretoo..With canevas layd wel al bout. <snip>

from the Oxford English Dictionary but actually, the fabric has been identified
in Egyptian tombs, etc.....

hope this helps<G>
chas
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Charles L Hamilton,  chasm@schuetzen.net  Houston, TX
WBCCI #1130  VAC   S*M*A*R*T '76 Sovereign '02 E350 PSD
www.schuetzen.net

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