Sekirov Dictionary

champaign

/ˈʃæmpeɪn/

noun 2
adjective 1
forms 3

noun2

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(no longer used) Open countryside, or an area of open countryside.
- Of all these bounds euen from this Line, to this, / With shadowie Forrests, and with Champains rich'd / With plenteous Riuers, and wide-skirted Meades / We make thee Lady. — 1603
(no longer used) A battlefield.

adjective1

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Pertaining to open countryside; unforested, flat.
- They are seated alongst the sea-coast, encompassed toward the land with huge and steepie mountains, having betweene both, a hundred leagues or there abouts of open and champaine ground. — 1603

forms

champaigns · more champaign · most champaign

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