easel

n. wooden frame on which an artist's canvas is supported or displayed

An easel is an upright support used for displaying and/or fixing something resting upon it.The word is an old Germanic synonym for donkey (compare similar semantics); its equivalent is the only word for both animal and apparatus in various languages, such as Esel in German and earlier ezel in Dutch (the easel generally in full schildersezel, 'painter's donkey'), themselves derived from Latin Asinus (hence ass), interestingly in Danish the word is staffeli and donkey is æsel.
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Noun
1. an upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas)
(hypernym) tripod

(n.)
A frame (commonly) of wood serving to hold a canvas upright, or nearly upright, for the painter's convenience or for exhibition.
  

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