Americans were attracted to the kimono form because of its broad canvaslike surfaces."

It was the trucks beside them loaded with flat canvaslike objects of transparent plastic.

The duck's common name is based on early European inhabitants of North America's assertion that its back was a canvaslike color.

People had wondered if England would be affected by the heat, around 85 degrees, but the authorities decided to close the canvaslike flaps over the stadium.

Belts are whipped on the floor; canvaslike rectangles are waved about; folding chairs are deployed.

Mr. Nottebohm, who donated his time, sculptured shallow craters into the floor's canvaslike surface, and these can be sensed by someone in a wheelchair.

The house, built in 1907 but modified in the Territorial style, has the canvaslike feeling of a work in progress, accentuated by fearless splashes of color and eccentricities at every turn.

The narrow aisles of the market, which operated under an awning of translucent canvaslike material through which one could still see the constant displays of fireworks in the sky above, were crammed with people, all trying to give things away.

Yesterday they brought it back to the airport and, after hunting around for a few minutes at the American Airlines office in Terminal 8, she recovered her bag, which, like most of the ones stacked on every surface, was a dark canvaslike plastic number on wheels, taller than it was wide.