under canvas
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[edit ]Prepositional phrase
[edit ]- (nautical ) Having the sails unfurled, under sail; travelling by ship or boat.
- 1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter XVII, in The Voyage Out , London: Duckworth & Co., [...], →OCLC:
- ‘I want to go up the river and see the natives in their camps. It's only a matter of ten days under canvas.’
- Living in tents.