† champestreadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Pertaining to the fields, rural.
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the world > the earth > land > tract > [noun] > common or unenclosed
common1377
moor1386
common land1470
champestrea1492
common field1523
champaign1555
commons1583
champian1611
commonity1612
public domain1627
commonage1635
commoninga1661
range1707–8
open1733
common area1837
mark1849
veld1852
outdoors1859
wide (also great, vast) open spaces1910
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > country as opposed to town > [adjective]
fieldena1425
rustic?1440
citylessc1450
champestrea1492
rural?a1500
rustical1542
agrestc1550
predial1592
champestrial1612
agrestic1617
agrestical1623
agrested1650
upland1654
countrified1756
agrestian1812
country1827
mofussil1828
agrestial1840
landward1844
bucolic1846
out-country1939
land-bound1972
a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) 11 Some..were nygh dwellers by citees, and other places in champestres.
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adj.a1492