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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A technique of decorating metal in which areas that have been hollowed out, as by incising, are filled with colored enamel and fired.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the ground originally cast with depressions, or engraved or cut out, or lowered: said of a kind of enameling upon metal, of which the hollows are filled with the enamel pastes, which are afterward fired.
  • noun The art or method of producing such work in enamel: as, a plaque in champlevé.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Art) Having the ground engraved or cut out in the parts to be enameled; inlaid in depressions made in the ground; -- said of a kind of enamel work in which depressions made in the surface are filled with enamel pastes, which are afterward fired; also, designating the process of making such enamel work.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (for metals) having areas separated by metal and filled with colored enamel and fired

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French : champ, field (from Old French, from Latin campus) + levé, raised; see levee.]

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