champagne

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A sparkling white wine, traditionally from the Champagne region of France.

   We opened a bottle of champagne to celebrate.

2. 2
   noun

   A very pale golden colour, like that of champagne.

   She chose a dress in a soft champagne.

3. 3
   adj

   Of a pale golden colour.

   They painted the room a warm champagne shade.

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Simplified etymology

Champagne is closely related to campaign through Latin campania, “open countryside,” based on campus, “field.” In French, champagne could refer both to an area of open country and to the winemaking region.

Borrowed from French champagne (“sparkling wine from the Champagne region”), from Champagne (“region and former province of France”), from Late Latin campānia (in full Campānia Rēmēnsis), from campāneus (“of or pertaining to the fields”), from Latin campus (“level ground; field, plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp- (“to bend, curve”). The English word is a doublet of campagna (“flat stretch of countryside”) (dated), campaign, and campania.

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