champaign

1. 1

   Open countryside, or an area of open countryside.archaic

   • 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.
   • So Segrave in Leiceſterſhire (which Towne I am now bound to remember) is ſited in a Champain, at the edge of the Wolds, and more barren than the villages about it, yet no place likely yeelds a better aire.
2. 2

   A battlefield.obsolete

syn. champian

1. 1

   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.
   • A fine champagne country, well stored with corn.

syn. champian