champignonchampinionn.
/tʃamˈpɪnɪən//ʃamˈpɪnɪən/ A name applied originally (as in French) to fungi, or mushrooms generally; in 18th cent. to edible mushrooms, esp. Agaricus campestris; but, subsequently, restricted to the Fairy Ring Agaric ( A. Oreades).
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1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. ii. 6 Venemous Champions or Tode stooles.
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Ll4v Scarce an inveterate tree, but some kinde of campinion adheres thereunto.
1661 W. Rabisha Whole Body Cookery 7 To pickle Shampinnions.
1681 T. Dineley Jrnl. Tour Ireland in Trans. Kilkenny Archæol. Soc. 2nd Ser. 1 179 Mushrooms, toadstooles, or champinions are in great number good and fair.
1693 W. Bowles tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires v. 208 He viler friends with doubtful mushrooms treats, Secure for you, himself champignons eats.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Shampinion, a Mushroom.
1708 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 26 78 The Champinion or Toad-stool.
1744 W. Watson in Philos. Trans. 1742–3 (Royal Soc.) 42 601 Although many Species of Mushrooms are eatable..the Gardeners only propagate that Sort with red Gills, called, by way of Excellence, Champignon, a Name given by the French to all sorts of Mushrooms.
1762 W. Hudson Flora Anglica Agaricus Oreades, champignion.
1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica II. 1021 [Agaricus coriaceous] Champignion or Fairy Agaric. Anglis.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxxii. 501 The Champignon, or common eatable Mushroom.
1807 Wollaston in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 97 137 The broadest rings that I have seen were those of the common mushroom (Ag. campestris); the narrowest..are those of the champignon (Ag. oreades of Dr. Withering).
1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 334 The champignon..grows on more moist land than the..mushroom.
1841 W. M. Thackeray in Fraser's Mag. June 723/1 This was the bill of fare:—..Champignons à la Provençale (the most delicious mushrooms I ever tasted).
1966 F. H. Brightman Oxf. Bk. Flowerless Plants 34/1 Clitocybe rivulosa (‘False Champignon’) is to be found in groups amongst short grass in late summer and autumn, and may form fairy-rings.
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