champaine

Etymology

French champagne (“base of a coat of arms”).

adj

1. (heraldry) Curved (concave), enarched, or sometimes varriated; especially in the phrase point champaine, an abatement consisting of a curved (or sometimes horizontal) stain the bottom of the shield.
   Purpure, a bend champaine argent—ARCHBY. Argent, a pale champaine vert—BOWMAN. Bendy of six champaine purple and argent—BOWBRIDGE. Gyronny of four champaine or, enarched argent and gules—BRAUNECK. 1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 99

noun

1. (heraldry) Alternative form of champagne (“(ordinary occupying) the base of the shield”)
   3. Two rows of Vair, on a champagne gules an open crown or (both 2 and 3 for CRONBERG). 1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 489