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cantonment|kænˈtɒnmənt, -ˈtuːnmənt|
Also 8–9 cantoonment.
[a. F. cantonnement, f. cantonner: see canton v. and -ment.]
1. The cantoning or quartering of troops.
1757Burke Abridgm. Eng. Hist. i. iii. (R.) No places of cantonment for soldiers.
2. The place of lodging assigned to a section of a force when cantoned out; also (often in pl.) the place or places of encampment formed by troops for a more permanent stay in the course of a campaign, or while in winter quarters; ‘in India the permanent military stations are so termed’ (Stocqueler Mil. Encycl.).
1756Gentl. Mag. XXVI. 554 They repaired to their respective cantonments. 1777W. Heath in Sparks Corr. Amer. Rev. (1853) I. 338 Every purpose..has been answered, by the troops in their present cantonment. 1813Wellington Let. in Gurw. Disp. XI. 311 The distress of the Spanish troops..induced me to order them into cantonments within the Spanish frontier. 1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India I. 287 To withdraw from the cantonment to the Residency. 1844Regul. & Ord. Army 270 No Officer is on any account to sleep out of Camp or Cantonments without leave.
3. transf. Quarters; places of occupation.
1837W. Irving Capt. Bonneville I. 166 All hands now set to work to prepare a winter cantonment. 1875tr. Schmidt's Desc. & Darw. 227 The Mammalia, whose extraction may be inferred..from a comparison of their present cantonments..with the encampments of their former kindred. |