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under canvas en · ADP

Meanings

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

Translations (2)

fi purjeet ylhäällä (under sail) · fi purjeilla (under sail)