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- French · derived fromchampagne“base of a coat of arms”
- English todaychampaine
French champagne (“base of a coat of arms”).
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
champaine
Today it means: Curved (concave), enarched, or sometimes varriated; especially in the phrase point champaine, an abatement consisting of a curved (or sometimes horizontal) stain the bottom of the shield. Full definition →
French champagne