Champagne vs Champaign - What's the difference?
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(geography, archaic) Open countryside, or an area of open countryside.
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*:And therwith torned theyr horses and rode ouer waters and thurgh woodes tyl they came to theyre busshement / where as syr Lyonel and syr Bedeuer were houyng / The romayns folowed fast after on horsbak and on foote ouer a ch?payn vnto a wood
*1605 , William Shakespeare, King Lear , I.i:
*:Of all these bounds even from this line to this, / With shadowy forests and with champaigns riched, / With plenteous rivers and wide-skirted meads, / We make thee lady.
*, II.ii.3:
*:So Segrave in Leicestershireis sited in a champaign at the edge of the wolds, and more barren than the villages about it, yet no place likely yields a better air.
(obsolete) A battlefield.
Pertaining to open countryside; unforested, flat.
*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.206:
Champaign is a related term of champagne.
As nouns the difference between champagne and champaign
is that champagne is a sparkling white wine made from a blend of grapes, especially Chardonnay and pinot, produced in Champagne by the méthode champenoise while champaign is open countryside, or an area of open countryside.As adjectives the difference between champagne and champaign
is that champagne is of a very pale brownish-gold color, similar to that of champagne while champaign is pertaining to open countryside; unforested, flat.As a proper noun Champagne
is a region and former province of France.As a verb champagne
is to drink champagne.champaign
English
Alternative forms
* champeyne * champaine * champainNoun
(en noun)Adjective
(en adjective)- They are seated alongst the sea-coast, encompassed toward the land with huge and steepie mountains, having betweene both, a hundred leagues or thereabouts of open and champaine ground.
