stretcher
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- noun
- /ˈstrɛtʃər/
- Specialized
:
bastidor
- After preparing the wooden stretcher, the artist began to apply the first layer of primer to the canvas.
- canvas stretcher
- stretcher bars
- wooden stretcher
Examples
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To create a canvas for painting, I attached the fabric to a wooden stretcher and secured it tightly.
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He removed the canvas from its stretcher and effaced the original painting, taking care not to damage the fabric.
Academic text (2011) -
This is a 12" x 12" piece mounted on 1.5" stretcher bars.
Blog text (23) -
Yeah, it's the same stretcher as Van Gogh used.
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Harry is on a ladder, attaching the final spring stretcher to a corner of the muslin.
Fiction book (2001) -
And that's me realizing just now, at this point that the stretcher doesn't actually fit the painting.
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Through the grapevine of plein-air painters, I have since learned that one must always screw eyehooks into the back of the wooden stretcher, anchoring it to the ground with fishing wire.
Academic text (2012) -
She painted a beautiful landscape on the stretcher, which would later be displayed in the gallery.
Synonyms
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A rigid border that surrounds and supports a picture or mirror
A frame with hooks that holds cloth tight while it dries
Compounds
- Jargon
A group of people who carry injured or sick people on stretchers during emergencies
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Stretcher comes from the verb stretch, which means 'to make tight' or 'to pull out'. An artist's stretcher is a wooden frame that keeps the canvas tight by stretching the cloth over it, so the name means 'something that stretches'.