There are also practitioners of this dark art in Portland, Oregon; Champaign, Illinois; and … the Upper East Side of Manhattan?
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And since 1999, he hosted the Roger Ebert Film Festival in Champaign, Illinois, home to the University of Illinois.
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Our forefathers, he explains, drank that mirth-inspiring liquor with which Burgundy and Champaign supplied them.
Old and New Paris, v. 1|Henry Sutherland Edwards
They moved from there to Champaign, Illinois when I was about six years old.
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This country is always tilled, and full of corn, and is all plain and champaign ground, and hath great store of honey.
The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell|Andrew Battell
In the old Welsh tongue, Gwent means a champaign country, or level alluvial plain.
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"Let us finish this champaign, my good fellow," says the politician, emptying his glass.
An Outcast|F. Colburn Adams
British Dictionary definitions for champaign
champaign
/ (ʃæmˈpeɪn) /
noun
Also called: campagnaan expanse of open level or gently undulating country
an obsolete word for battlefield
Word Origin for champaign
C14: from Old French champaigne, from Late Latin campānia; see campaign