cantonment
Collocations
2VERB + CANTONMENT
stricken
PREP.
from
Definitions
noun
Temporary military living quarters.
On the Umballa platform waited a detachment of officers discussing the latest news from the stricken cantonment, and it was here that Bobby learned the real condition of the Tail Twisters.
A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters.
The cantonments, it transpired, were singularly ill-sited for defence, being built on low, marshy ground, overlooked by hills on all sides.
A permanent military station.
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noun — temporary living quarters specially built by the army for so
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2On the Umballa platform waited a detachment of officers discussing the latest news from the stricken cantonment, and it was here that Bobby learned the real condition of the Tail Twisters.
WiktionaryThe cantonments, it transpired, were singularly ill-sited for defence, being built on low, marshy ground, overlooked by hills on all sides.
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