chamoiserie, n.f., chamois factory; chamois leather.
chamoiseur, n.m., shamoy-dresser.
champ (shān), n.m., field, piece of ground; career; opportunity, scope; matter, theme, subject; compass, space; (her.) field. À tout bout de —; every moment. À travers —s; over hedge and ditch, across country. — de bataille; field of battle. — de courses; race-course. — de repos; the churchyard, God’s acre. — clos; lists (for combat). Sur-le-—; at once, immediately. Battre aux —s; (milit.) to beat a salute. Donner la clef des —s; to give anyone his liberty. Être aux —s; to be in the country; (fig.) to be in a passion. Courir les —s; to run about the country. Prendre la clef des —s; to take to one’s heels; to bolt. Le — est libre; the coast is clear. Il est fou à courir les —s; he is as mad as a march hare. Être aux —s; not to know where one is.
*champagne, n.m., champagne. — frappé; iced champagne. — mousseux; sparkling champagne. — non mousseux; still champagne. Fine —; liqueur brandy.
*champagniser, v.a., to turn into champagne.
champart, n.m., (feudality) field-rent paid in kind to the lord.
champarter, v.a., to exercise the right of levying field-rent in kind.
champarteur, n.m., bailiff charged to collect field-rent in kind.
☉champeaux, n.m.pl., grass fields.
champenois, n.m., -e, n.f., native of Champagne.