casern

American  

[kuh-surn] / kəˈsɜrn /

Or caserne

noun

1. a lodging for soldiers in a garrison town; barracks.

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casern British  

/ kəˈzɜːn /

noun

1. (formerly) a billet or accommodation for soldiers in a town

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Etymology

Origin of casern

1690–1700; < French caserne, originally small room for guardsmen < Old Provençal cazerna foursome < Latin quaterna, neuter plural of quaternī four at a time, equivalent to quater- (derivative of quattuor four ) + -nī distributive suffix

Example Sentences

As she drove down the avenue she heard a bugle ring out from the Ludwigsburg casern.

From A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg by Hay, Marie, Hon. (Agnes Blanche Marie)

The hall of reception was an enormous wooden casern or barn, very long, and, as we have said, extraordinarily high, with berths or hammocks all up the walls. 

From The French Prisoners of Norman Cross A Tale by Brown, Arthur, Rev.

"Let us enter the casern, call the soldiers, and awaken the officers; I myself will address them!" said Elizabeth, alighting from her sledge.

From The Daughter of an Empress by Greene, Nathaniel

They had now reached the casern of the Peobrajensky regiment.

From The Daughter of an Empress by Greene, Nathaniel

The fort itself was only a redoubt of timber and earth, surrounded by a stockade, and having a casern, or barrack, inside, capable of accommodating two hundred soldiers.

From Burgoyne's Invasion of 1777 With an outline sketch of the American Invasion of Canada, 1775-76. by Drake, Samuel Adams