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  • noun Plural form of champaign.

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Examples

  • From her tall precipice and terraced gardens she looks far and wide on the sea and broad champaigns.

    Edinburgh Picturesque Notes 2005

  • He deems that she now has fled from cities to dwell on the robuster champaigns of Illinois and Kansas.

    Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923

  • Doubleday, Page & Company as the "garage," or on walks that summer between the Country Life Press and the neighboring champaigns of

    Mince Pie Christopher Morley 1923

  • Street which had mocked and repelled him suddenly became alluring with its champaigns of light and inviting stretches of darkness.

    The Inside of the Cup — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

  • Street which had mocked and repelled him suddenly became alluring with its champaigns of light and inviting stretches of darkness.

    The Inside of the Cup — Volume 04 Winston Churchill 1909

  • Street which had mocked and repelled him suddenly became alluring with its champaigns of light and inviting stretches of darkness.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

  • The "able editor" cares naught for purple hills, unless they contain mineral; for broad champaigns unless the soil be good; for flashing brooks unless they can be made to turn a millwheel or water a cow.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1. 1898

  • Torn from the dear fat soil of champaigns hopefully tilled,

    The Story of Rouen Theodore Andrea Cook 1897

  • The enclosure of the common fields of England by hedge or wall, whereby the country has been changed from a land of open champaigns and large vistas to one of parterres and cattle-pens, constitutes a revolution in the social and economic life of the nation.

    Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895

  • The shovelfuls of loam, black as jet, brought there by the river when it was as wide as the whole valley, were an essence of soils, pounded champaigns of the past, steeped, refined, and subtilized to extraordinary richness, out of which came all the fertility of the mead, and of the cattle grazing there.

    Tess of the d'Urbervilles 1891

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