puhekieltä Open countryside, or an area of open countryside.
(RQ:Mlry MrtDrthr):
And therwith torned theyr horses and rode ouer waters and thurgh woodes tyl they came to theyre busshement / where as syr Lyonel and syr Bedeuer were houyng / The romayns folowed fast after on horsbak and on foote ouer a chāpayn vnto a wood
1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, I.i:
Of all these bounds even from this line to this, / With shadowy forests and with champaigns riched, / With plenteous rivers and wide-skirted meads, / We make thee lady.
(RQ:RBrtn AntmyMlncl), II.ii.3:
So Segrave in Leicestershire(..)is sited in a champaign at the edge of the wolds, and more barren than the villages about it, yet no place likely yields a better air.
They are seated alongst the sea-coast, encompassed toward the land with huge and steepie mountains, having betweene both, a hundred leagues or thereabouts of open and champaine ground.