champaign

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"Let us finish this champaign, my good fellow," says the politician, emptying his glass.

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  1. noun A stretch of level and open country; a plain.

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  • HeyLittleFingers on 2009-03-06 04: 01: 50 hello punknews ... today is something we call unofficial st. patricks day in champaign, Il. holy god im drunk by galecki1 on Thursday, March 5, 2009 at 8: 00 PM (EST) —  Punknews.org
  • It was a cruel observation for Hemmingway to make while Fitzgerald desperately searched his pockets for the cash to pay for 10 magnums of champaign ordered for lunch. —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • Here, if he was fortunate, he might secure a prophet's chamber, with a view across tiled house-roofs to the distant Tuscan champaign--glimpses of russet field and olive-garden framed by jutting city walls, which in some measure compensated for much discomfort. —  New Italian sketches
  • "That's New York--take claret; or, if you will drink champaign, pour it into a green glass, and they will think it hock_; champaign is not right." —  Diary in America, Series One
  • The windows looked down on a lovely champaign, through which the many-winding Forth span its silver network, until, vanishing in the distance, a white sparkle here and there only showed whither the river wandered. —  Olive A Novel
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  1. Middle English champain, from Old French champainge, from Late Latin campānia; see campaign.

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  1. Early modern English also champain, champaine, and by corruption champian, champion, from Middle English champeyne, from Old French champaigne, assibilated form of campaigne = Italian campagna, a flat open country: see campaign.
 

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