Mil. Also cazern. [a. F. caserne, ad. Sp. (and Pg.) caserna, f. casa house: Littré compares cava, caverna.] One of a series of small (temporary) buildings between the ramparts and houses of a fortified town for the accommodation of troops; also a barrack.
1696. Phillips, Cazerus.
1703. Lond. Gaz., No. 3913/2. They set fire to their Caserns.
1716. Prot. Mercury, 3 Aug., 3. To build Cazernes or Barracks in Hide Park.
1858. Beveridge, Hist. India, I. III. xi. 638. All the tents and temporary caserns were blown to pieces.
1863. Kinglake, Crimea (1877), IV. xiii. 314. The fronting walls of the cazern … were in some places destroyed.
1867. Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Casernes … correctly small lodgments erected between the ramparts and houses of a fortified town, to ease the inhabitants by quartering soldiers there.
