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Noun: cantonment  kan'tón-munt or kan'town-munt
  1. Temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
    "wherever he went in the cantonment the men were grumbling"
    - camp, encampment, bivouac

Derived forms: cantonments

See also: canton

Type of: military quarters

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