"canvasful" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "canvas + -ful",
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          "ref": "1890, Wilkie Collins, The Queen of Hearts",
          "text": "When I see him at his easel, so neat and quiet, so unpretending and modest in himself, with such a composed expression on his attentive face, with such a weak white hand to guide such bold, big brushes, and when I look at the frightful canvasful of terrors which he is serenely aggravating in fierceness and intensity with every successive touch, I find it difficult to realize the connection between my brother and his work, though I see them before me not six inches apart.",
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        {
          "ref": "1936, Cora Hardy Jarrett, Strange Houses, page 43",
          "text": "How could one man's brush and hand, with his personal vision behind them, color a canvasful of sea and sky and human forms, and make of it but a decoration, beautiful, vibrant, shallow . . . while another's brush flung three heavy indignant-looking apples on a gray plate, with a napkin underneath, and behold, he had painted a deep and significant little corner of a majestic universe!",
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          "ref": "1947, Robeson Bailey, Techniques in article-writing, page 122",
          "text": "She gave the painting, a vigorous canvasful of amorphous shapes in blues and blue greens, a moment's impartial inspection.",
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        {
          "ref": "2003, Frank Jewett Mather, Frederic Fairchild Sherman, Art in America - Volume 91, page 121",
          "text": "On Martha's Vineyard, Summer 1962 is a canvasful of brushstrokes and scumblings, some wet into wet, some dry-brushed, with accidental runs of thinned paint allowed to remain.",
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        "The contents of a canvas; the content of a painting on a canvas."
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  "etymology_text": "canvas + -ful",
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          "ref": "1890, Wilkie Collins, The Queen of Hearts",
          "text": "When I see him at his easel, so neat and quiet, so unpretending and modest in himself, with such a composed expression on his attentive face, with such a weak white hand to guide such bold, big brushes, and when I look at the frightful canvasful of terrors which he is serenely aggravating in fierceness and intensity with every successive touch, I find it difficult to realize the connection between my brother and his work, though I see them before me not six inches apart.",
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        "The contents of a canvas; the content of a painting on a canvas."
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