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chambrier: chamberlain; chambermaid (or similar male servant)
chambriste: a member of a certain French Catholic sect in the early nineteenth century; a player of chamber music
chambrière: chambermaid
chambré: room temperature (of wine), chambré
chambrée: group of people sleeping in the same room; barracks (for soldiers); dormitory
chambérien: of Chambéry
chameau: camel
chameau de Bactriane: Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus)
chamelet: young camel
chamelier: camel rider (or soldier mounted on a camel); camel driver
chamelle: she-camel, female camel
chamelon: young camel
chamitique: Hamitic (relative to the Hamites)
chamois: chamois (animal); chamois (leather)
chamoiser: to make chamois-like
chamoiserie: a shop selling, or making, chamois products
chamoniard: of or from Chamonix
chamorro: Chamorro language
chamotte: chamotte
champ: field in its various senses, including:
champ clos: champ clos (field officially set aside for the fighting of a knightly duel or tournament; area enclosed by the lists); arena, place where disputes are settled
champ d'action: field of action, range; room for maneuver
champ d'application: scope of application, field of application
champ d'honneur: field of honor, battlefield
champ de bataille: battlefield; a messy place, a bloody mess, a war zone, a disaster area (an area with a significant display of disarray)
champ de courses: racecourse
champ de foire: fairground; mess, messy situation
champ de force: force field, field; force field
champ de glace: ice field
champ de mines: minefield
champ de tir: outdoors shooting range, outdoors firing range, outdoors rifle range
champ de vision: field of view, field of vision, visual field
champ gravitationnel: gravitational field
champ lexical: semantic field (a group of words which all relate to the same subject or concept, or to overlapping aspects thereof)
champ libre: free rein, free hand, carte blanche
champ magnétique: magnetic field
champ sémantique: semantic field
champ vectoriel: vector field
champ': champagne, champers
champagne: champagne (“wine from the Champagne region of France”); sparkling wine, generic champagne; base; bottom third of a coat of arms
champagne: an expanse of flat and open cultivated earth
champagniser: to champagnize
champart: the division of the produce of land due by a tenant farmer to the feudal lord possessing the land; a mixture of wheat, rye and malted barley serving as fodder for livestock
champenois: of, from or relating to Champagne, wine-producing cultural region, part of the administrative region of Grand Est, France
champenois: Champenois (Romance language or dialect)
champi: shroom, magic mushroom
champi: waif (abandoned child)
champignon: mushroom; fungus (in general); fungal infection; mold / mould (woolly or furry growth of tiny fungi); accelerator pedal
champignon chinois: Chinese mushroom
champignon de Paris: button mushroom, champignon (Agaricus bisporus, a species of mushroom commonly used in cooking)
champignonner: to mushroom (grow quickly); to mushroom (to pick mushrooms)
champignonneux: mushroomy, fungal
champignonniste: mushroom grower
champignonnière: mushroom bed
champion: champion
champion du monde: world champion
championnat: championship
champlevé: champlevé
champlevé: champlevé
champlure: tap