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canvas
1260, from Anglo-Fr.
canevaz,
from O.Fr.
canevas,
from V.L.
*cannapaceus
"made of hemp," from L.
cannabis,
from Gk.
kannabis
"hemp," a Scythian or Thracian word.
Canvas-back
as a type of N.Amer. duck is from 1785.