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Barrack

noun

A building or group of buildings used to house military personnel.

verb

Lodge in barracks.

Spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts. Synonyms: cheer, exhort, inspire, pep up, root on, urge, urge on.

Laugh at with contempt and derision. Synonyms: flout, gibe, jeer, scoff.

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"Barrack" Quotes from Famous Books

... literary men, in truth, know nothing of society. They are perfectly ignorant of how people think and talk in our set. I do not mind if they despise our customs, our conventionalities, but I do not forgive them for not knowing them. When they want to be humorous they make puns that would do for a barrack; when they try to be jolly, they give us jokes that they must have picked up on the outer boulevard in those beer houses artists are supposed to frequent, where one has heard the same students' jokes for ...

— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant

... that all the masters, censors, and teachers in the great intermediate schools or lyceums should be celibates! The professors might marry, but in that case they could not live in the precincts of what was virtually a military barrack. ...

— The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte - Vol. III. (of IV.) • William Milligan Sloane

... day, had dined at the Junior, looked in at the Opera, and finished at the Steak. He seemed a civilian of civilians. The most casual observer would have declared that he could never have seen the inside of a barrack-yard. So no surprise was expressed when ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 99., August 2, 1890. • Various

... making and became more jerky and real. "I respected you, Alice," he went on. "I didn't love you but I hoped I might, and I played the game. I liked to see you in my house. You fitted in and made it more of a home than that barrack had ever been. I began to collect prints and first editions, adjust myself to respectability and even to look forward with pride to a ...

— Who Cares? • Cosmo Hamilton

... one of the most important of the English towns, and ranked next to Dublin at that period. We give an illustration of the Castle of Athlone at the beginning of Chapter XX. The building is now used for a barrack, which in truth is no great deviation from its original purpose. It stands on the direct road from Dublin to Galway, and protects the passage of the Shannon. There is a curious representation on a monument here of an unfortunate English monk, who apostatized and came to Ireland. He was sent ...

— An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 • Mary Frances Cusack

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