Casern
a lodging for soldiers in a garrison town; barracks.
Historical Examples
They had now reached the casern of the Peobrajensky regiment.
The Daughter of an Empress Louise Muhlbach
casern, ka-sėrn′, n. a lodging for troops in a town: a barrack.
Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) Various
Let us enter the casern, call the soldiers, and awaken the officers; I myself will address them!
The Daughter of an Empress Louise Muhlbach
As she drove down the avenue she heard a bugle ring out from the Ludwigsburg casern.
A German Pompadour Marie Hay
noun
(formerly) a billet or accommodation for soldiers in a town
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