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"ref": "1854, O. F. Winship, E. E. McLean (translators), Summary of the Art of War (originally by Antoine-Henri Jomini)",
"text": "To the end of husbanding the supplies, he will cause to be cantoned in the cities and villages the greatest possible numbers of troops"
}
],
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"To quarter troops by requisitioning housing from the civilian population."
],
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"quarter",
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],
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"(transitive) To quarter troops by requisitioning housing from the civilian population."
],
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]
},
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{
"ref": "1854, O. F. Winship, E. E. McLean (translators), Summary of the Art of War (originally by Antoine-Henri Jomini)",
"text": "An army, falling back upon its lines of magazines, may … make its retreat with more security than one which has to canton, to subsist, and to extend itself to find cantonments."
}
],
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"To be allotted such quarters."
],
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"(intransitive) To be allotted such quarters."
],
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"intransitive"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/ˈkæntən/"
},
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"ipa": "/ˈkæntɒn/"
},
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],
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"word": "kanton"
}
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}
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"form": "cantons",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
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"word": "pancit canton"
}
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"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
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{
"ref": "c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:",
"text": "Write loyal cantons of contemnèd love / And sing them loud even in the dead of night.",
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}
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"A song or canto."
],
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"(obsolete) A song or canto."
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]
}
],
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],
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}
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"msg": "''A division of a political unit'[...]' gloss has examples we want to keep, but there are subglosses.",
"path": [
"canton"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "canton",
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