champ·le·vé (shäN-l?-v??)n. A technique of decorating metal in which areas that have been hollowed out, as by incising, are filled with colored enamel and fired.[French : champ, field (from Old French, from Latin campus); see campus + levé, raised; see levee2.]champ?le·vé? adj.American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.champlevé (???lve; English ??æmpl??ve?) adj (Ceramics) of or relating to a process of enamelling by which grooves are cut into a metal base and filled with enamel coloursn (Ceramics) an object enamelled by this process[C19: from champ field (level surface) + levé raised]Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014champ?le?vé (??? l??ve?) adj., n., pl. -vés (-?ve?, -?ve?z) adj. 1. being or made by an enameling technique in which the enamel is fused onto incised or hollowed areas of a metal base. n. 2. the technique itself. [1855?60;