Meanings
noungarrison town (plural garrison towns)
plural garrison towns
- A town in which the military is stationed.
Hun-ch'un is essentially a garrison town, though there are a few dealers in seaweed, toadstools, and medicinal roots, large quantities of which are sent to Ninguta and Kirin, and thence to all parts of China.
1888, H. E. M. James, “Sansing to Ninguta and Hun-ch'un”, in The Long White Mountain or A Journey in Manchuria, Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 346
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