Meaning cantonment
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cantonment1756, "military quarters," from French cantonnement, from cantonner "to divide into cantons" (14c.), from canton (see canton). Meaning "action of quartering troops" is fr [..]
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cantonmentn. The part of the town or district in which the troops are quartered.
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cantonment(n) temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
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cantonment
Temporary military living quarters.
A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters.
* '''1990''', Peter Hopkirk, ''The Great Game'', Folio Society 2010 [..]
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