champaine

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champaine

1. (heraldry) Curved (concave); especially in the phrase point champaine, an abatement consisting of a curved (or sometimes horizontal) line staining the bottom of the shield.
2. (heraldry) Varriated.
   • 1894, Henry Gough; James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 99:

     Purpure, a bend champaine argent—Archby.

champaine

1. (heraldry) An ordinary (either curved or flat-topped) which occupies the base of the shield.
   • 1892, John Woodward; George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 489:

     3. Two rows of Vair, on a champagne gules an open crown or (both 2 and 3 for CRONBERG).

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2. (heraldry) A varriated line or ordinary.
   • 1894, Henry Gough; James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 99:

     Gyronny of four champaine or, enarched argent and gules—BRAUNECK.

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• 1845, Edward Smedley; Hugh James Rose; Henry John Rose, Encyclopædia Metropolitana, page 600:

  […] if one side of the ordinary be curved inward, it is called invex, concave, or champain; when outward, chapourned, or convex.

• 1846, William Newton, Display of Heraldry, page 392:

  The point champain debases the escutcheon, by a portion of the arms being stained out in a curved line, at the lower part or foot of the [shield].