Obs. Also 6 shampanie. [var. of CHAMPAIGN; cf. Almaine, Almanie from OF. Alemaigne, Brittany from Bretagne, etc.] ? The field (of combat); ? the lists: cf. CHAMP sb.1
a. 1400[?]. Morte Arth., 1822. He killez in the champanyse chevalrous knyghttez.
15[?]. in Nichols, Progr. Q. Eliz., III. 196. Sir Henry Lees challenge before the shampanie.
