casern
noun
a lodging for soldiers in a garrison town; barracks.
caserne
-
a variation of
casern.
Example Sentences
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The center of French army life had been the caserne, a dank, prisonlike barracks building usually found on the outskirts of many French towns, where the French recruits underwent rigid, dull, impractical training.
From Time Magazine Archive
What the recruits do see is the light camp in the rolling countryside beyond Versailles, a day's march from the caserne.
From Time Magazine Archive
The caserne taught them tolerable parade ground manners, outmoded book knowledge about arms, and how to pick up after the colonel's horse.
From Time Magazine Archive
The great operation of shedding citizens' garments and assuming the uniform is at hand, and is one of the most amusing in the life of the caserne.
From Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 by William Walton
"He must go home with us to our caserne," said Cunningham; "there is no safety for him out of our bounds, whilst these man hunters are prowling."
From Quentin Durward by Sir Walter Scott
