Polish English Dictionary

język polski - English

płótno in English:

1. canvas canvas


we slept under canvas
Many painters paint their paintings on canvas.
The definition of a canvas is a surface you paint on. An artist begins to paint on a canvas.
Jane tried to buy canvas in her town but she failed.
She carried a bag made out of canvas.
canvas or other cloth on which artists paint with oil paints
At the outset, the startup business model is a canvas covered with ideas and guesses, but it has no customers and
This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
Oil on canvas can never paint a petal so delicate.
Groaning strangely she is hurling her overflowing passion onto the canvas!
His eyes got stuck on the canvas on the wall.

English word "płótno"(canvas) occurs in sets:

UNIT 8 reaction to artm literature + visual arts
Sztuka - osoby, narzędzia i czynności
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Fiszki z książki - "Turnover Point" (Alfred Coppel)
Fiszki z książki - "The Revolt of Man" (Walter Bes...

2. linen


Don't wash your dirty linen in public.
Only a poor man knows what such a passion costs in cab-hire, gloves, linen, tailor's bills, and the like. If the Platonic stage lasts a little too long, the affair grows ruinous.

English word "płótno"(linen) occurs in sets:

Angielski 4 - fair trade I

3. cloth


This cloth tears easily.
Why did you tear the cloth instead of cutting it with scissors?
You had better see the cloth with your own eyes.
Why don't you polish the shoes with this cloth?
Microfibre cloth is cloth woven from fibres as narrow as a hundredth of the width of a hair.
I dreamt a dream last night, about silk and fine cloth or about equality and fair trial.
It's not the cloth that brings the money. It's the craftsmanship.
Honest men and knaves may possibly wear the same cloth.
What were the balls made of? Thousands of years ago, the Egyptians made balls out of soft leather or cloth.
That table cloth urgently needs washing.
My mother likes to have many cloths in the kitchen.
Tom wiped a table with a cloth / They covered the table with a cloth / She cut up the cloth to make bandages
Just take a cloth and wipe it.
Have you got a cloth to clean the windows with?
That red cloth is a "fukusa"; it is a vital tool used to cleanse the tea equipment.

English word "płótno"(cloth) occurs in sets:

The Young King and Other Stories
Unit 2 - słownictwo
Module 6 -p1