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Chambers of rhetoric

Chambers of rhetoric (Dutch: rederijkerskamers) were guilds and confraternities of lay townspeople in the Low Countries who wrote and performed vernacular poetry and drama from the fifteenth century onward.

Chambord (liqueur)

Chambord (Chambord Liqueur Royale de France) is a French black raspberry liqueur, 16.5% ABV, launched 1982 in the Loire Valley, made from raspberries, blackberries, blackcurrants, vanilla, honey, and cognac, and owned by Brown-Forman since 2006.

Chambourcin

Chambourcin (Joannes Seyve 26-205) is a French-American hybrid red wine grape released in 1963, grown in France and the eastern US, with mildew resistance loci Rpv3/Ren but cold-tender buds and black rot susceptibility.

Chambre 666

Chambre 666 (Room 666) is Wim Wenders' 1982 documentary made in room 666 of Cannes' Hotel Martinez, where 16 directors including Godard, Herzog, Spielberg, and Antonioni answered whether cinema was an art about to die.

Chameleon (character)

Chameleon (Dmitri Smerdyakov, Дмитрий Смердяков) is Marvel's master-of-disguise supervillain and Spider-Man's first foe, debuting in Amazing Spider-Man #1 (March 1963) by Lee and Ditko; half-brother of Kraven, originally powerless, later serum-altered shapeshifter.

Chameli (चमेली) (film)

Chameli (चमेली) is a 2003 Hindi drama directed by Sudhir Mishra, starring Kareena Kapoor as a Mumbai sex worker and Rahul Bose as a banker, completed after director Anant Balani's death mid-shoot.

Chamillionaire

Chamillionaire (Hakeem Seriki, born 1979) is a Houston rapper, "the Mixtape Messiah," whose 2005 platinum album The Sound of Revenge and No. 1 single "Ridin'" won a Grammy; he later became a tech investor.

Chamiyan Bai (شمشاد بیگم)

Chamiyan Bai (شمشاد بیگم, 1898–1998), Old Delhi singer, actress, and tawaif; namesake and frequent mix-up with playback singer Shamshad Begum (1919–2013) of Hindi cinema.

Chamois leather

Chamois leather (セーム革) is soft, highly absorbent leather made from sheepskin flesh splits tanned by oxidation of marine (cod) oils, originally from Alpine chamois skin; used for drying, polishing, and filtration, defined by BS 6715 and US CS 99-1970.

Chamoy (sauce)

Chamoy is a Mexican sweet-sour-salty-spicy condiment made from pickled or dehydrated apricot, mango, plum, or tamarind with chile, salt, sugar, and vinegar, derived from Asian salted-plum preserves (umeboshi, Cantonese see-moy) and used on fruit, candy, drinks, and chamoyadas.

Champagne

Champagne: sparkling wine from the delimited Champagne AOC region of northeastern France, made by the bottle-fermented méthode traditionnelle from Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Meunier; AOC since 1936, UNESCO-listed 2015, with 17 Grand Cru villages and a protected name.

Champagne (1928 film)

Champagne (1928) is a British silent comedy directed by Alfred Hitchcock for British International Pictures, released 20 August 1928. A millionaire (Gordon Harker) feigns bankruptcy to teach his daughter (Betty Balfour) a lesson; restored by the BFI in 2012.

Champagne and Bullets

Champagne and Bullets (aka Road to Revenge, GetEven) is a 1993 self-financed American action film written, directed, produced by, and starring lawyer John De Hart, with Wings Hauser and William Smith, famous for the Shimmy Slide and three different cuts.

Champagne Drip

Champagne Drip is the bass music project of Los Angeles producer Sam Pool, launched in 2014 after a decade as SPL, with releases on Mad Decent, Deadbeats, and Wakaan.

Champagne Problems (film)

Champagne Problems (2025) is a Netflix holiday romantic comedy directed by Mark Steven Johnson, starring Minka Kelly and Tom Wozniczka, about an executive acquiring a champagne house who falls for the founder's son; it topped Netflix's weekly chart.

Champagne Supernova

"Champagne Supernova" is a 1995 song by the English rock band Oasis, written by Noel Gallagher as the closing track of (What's the Story) Morning Glory?.

Champignon Witch

Champignon Witch (シャンピニオンの魔女, Champignon no Majo) is a shōjo fantasy manga by Tachibana Higuchi, serialized on Hakusensha's Manga Park since 2019, about the poisonous black witch Luna; seven volumes and a 2026 twelve-episode anime adaptation.

Champion (2025 film)

Champion (2025) is a Telugu period sports action drama directed by Pradeep Advaitham, starring Roshann Meka as footballer Michael Williams and Anaswara Rajan, set during the Bhairanpally revolt against the Razakars; released 25 December 2025, streamed on Netflix from 29 January 2026.

Champion (sportswear)

Champion (sportswear): American athleticwear brand founded 1919 in Rochester, New York, as Knickerbocker Knitting Mills by the Feinbloom family; inventor of the hooded sweatshirt and Reverse Weave; NBA outfitter 1989-2001; owned by Authentic Brands Group since 2024.

Champion of the Universe

Champion of the Universe is the Marvel Comics alien Tryco Slatterus, an Elder of the Universe powered by the Big Bang-derived Power Primordial, created by DeFalco and Wilson, debuting in Marvel Two-In-One Annual #7 (1982).

Champu

Champu, also spelled campu (Kannada ಚಂಪು, Telugu చంపూ), is a mode of literary composition mixing verse and prose, favored by court poets of medieval South India.

Champurrado

Champurrado, also called atole de chocolate, is a Mexican hot drink: chocolate-flavored atole thickened with nixtamalized corn masa, sweetened with piloncillo, and whisked with a molinillo, served with tamales at posadas and Día de los Muertos.

Chan Chan relief adobe friezes

Chan Chan relief adobe friezes are sculpted clay and plaster ornaments on the adobe walls of Chan Chan, the Chimú kingdom capital near Trujillo, Peru.

Chan Giparang-ga

Chan Giparang-ga (찬기파랑가, "Song in Praise of Giparang") is a ten-line hyangga by the Silla monk Chungdam, written during King Gyeongdeok's reign to mourn and praise the hwarang Giparang.

Chan Pardesi

Chann Pardesi (चंन परदेसी), also Chan Pardesi, is a National Award-winning 1980/1981 Punjabi drama directed by Chitraarth, starring Raj Babbar, Rama Vij, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Amrish Puri, and Om Puri; remastered and re-released 27 May 2022.

Chân quê

"Chân quê" is a 1936 Vietnamese poem by Nguyễn Bính, written in lục bát meter about a village youth dismayed by his sweetheart's new town clothes.

Chanakya (चाणक्य) (TV series)

Chanakya (चाणक्य) is an Indian historical drama TV series written, directed by Chandraprakash Dwivedi, who also starred, telecast on DD National from 1991 to 1992.

Chanakya (చాణక్య) (2019 film)

Chanakya (చాణక్య) is a 2019 Telugu spy thriller directed by Thiru, starring Gopichand as RAW agent Arjun, with Mehreen Pirzada and Zareen Khan; released 5 October 2019, Gopichand's 26th film and first spy role, poorly received by critics.

Chance (TV series)

Chance is a Hulu psychological thriller series (2016–2017) starring Hugh Laurie as San Francisco forensic neuropsychiatrist Eldon Chance, adapted from Kem Nunn's novel; two ten-episode seasons, canceled January 2018.

Chance the Rapper

Chance the Rapper (Chancelor Johnathan Bennett, born 1993), Chicago independent hip-hop artist known for 10 Day, Acid Rap, Coloring Book, The Big Day, and Star Line; first artist to win a Grammy for a streaming-only release.