An encampment; a temporary settlement or camp, especially a military one; the act of camping or setting up camp.
From French 'campement' (ultimately from Latin 'campus' meaning field), used in English especially in historical and military contexts to describe temporary military settlements.
This French loanword reveals how English borrowed heavily from French military terminology—'campement,' 'battalion,' 'lieutenant'—basically, the vocabulary of organized warfare.
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