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Etymology
Variant form of champaign.
Noun
champian (plural champians)
- Synonym of champaign
Adjective
champian (not comparable)
- Synonym of champaign
c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. The First Part , 2nd edition, part 1, London: Richard Iones, , published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene ii:An hundred horeſmen of my companie
Scowting abroad vpon theſe champion plaines,
Haue view’d the army of the Scythians,
Which make report it far exceeds the Kings.
1652, George Sandys, Sandys Travailes: containing a history of the Originall an ..., page 21:The countrey above, is champian and not barren,- but rarely inhabited.
1703, Daniel Whitby, A paraphrase and commentary on the New Testament:The lower, which contained the Tribes of Zcbulon and Iffachar, because it was Champian, was called the Great Field
1715, Guy Miege, Present State of His Majesty's Dominions in Germany, page 558:The Couutry in general is Champian, and low, but sometimes rises into pleasant Hills
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