α. 1600s– winter quarters.
β. 1600s– winter quarter.
winter quartersn.
/ˌwɪntə ˈkwɔːtəz/, U.S. /ˌwɪn(t)ər ˈkwɔrdərz/ 1.
a. Accommodation for the winter, originally as occupied by troops between campaigns in successive years, later also by members of an expedition, a travelling company (e.g. of performers or entertainers), etc.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > quartering > [noun] > quarters > winter quarters
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > quarters > winter quarters
winter quarters1714
1632 Contin. Forraine Intelligence 8 Feb. 7 Tillyes forces..lye in their winter quarters in the Countrey called Ries and about Donawert.
1633 W. Watts Swedish Intelligencer: 3rd & 4th Pts. iii. 60 His next Stage was at Nordlingen..where Tilly, last yeere, made his Winter-Quarter.
1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico viii. 8 The like..was done..by the Nervians, when they besieged the winter-quarters [L. hyberna] of Quintus Cicero.
1714 W. Vickers Let. 21 Sept. in M. M. Verney Verney Lett. (1930) II. xxi. 16 Miss Pen comes to our winter quarters in the middle of next week.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1734) II. 386 The Duke of Marlborough resolved to possess himself of Triers, as a good Winter Quarter.
1769 London Chron. 9–11 Nov. 456/1 According to advices from the Russian Army..it will soon go into winter quarters in the centre of the kingdom.
1803 G. Nelson Second Winter 5 Sept. in L. Peers & T. Schenck First Years in Fur Trade (2002) 107 Some indians follow us, but are soon to fork as they go into winter quarters.
1823 London Lit. Gaz. 25 Oct. 674/1 They left these straits, and laid the ships up in winter quarters near the small island alluded to.
1867 Daily Cleveland (Ohio) Herald 5 Jan. [He] was looking at the animals at Robinson's circus, in winter quarters at Cincinnati.
1897 A. Beardsley Let. 29 July (1970) 353 At the end of this week I shall move to Paris, and then into winter quarters as soon as possible.
1913 Boys' Life Nov. 27/1 Scouts of West Hoboken, N. J., are building a log cabin in the woods on the Palisades and will use it as winter quarters.
1939 Florida: Guide to Southernmost State (Federal Writers' Project) iii. 395 Bailey circus winter quarters.
2003 N. Bhattacharya in C. Markovits et al. Society & Circulation (2006) vi. 177 About 200 of them..traded with Changthang and Rupshu, with Busahir as their winter quarter.
2015 Brant News (Brantford, Ont.) (Nexis) 25 Aug. 1 Brantford—once the carnival capital of Canada and currently the winter quarters for various carnival companies.
b. A place in which animals live during the winter. Also (occasionally): a place in which cultivated plants are stored during the winter.
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the world > animals > by habitat > habitat > [noun] > dwelling place or shelter > in winter
latebra1626
winter quarters1659
hibernaculum1770
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal enclosure or house general > [noun] > animal house > temporary animal house
winter quarters1659
stelling1828
shelter1971
1659 T. Bateson tr. J. Schröder Ζωολογια 80 Those [vipers] are best which are females gathered in the Spring, after that for some time they have been out of their Winter quarters [L. e cavernis suis hybernis], and in some measure refreshed with food.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 133 Lazy Drones,..In Winter Quarters free, devour the Gain. View more context for this quotation
1709 T. Robinson Vindic. Mosaick Syst. 89 in Ess. Nat. Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland I saw infinite Numbers of Frogs coming out of their Winter-Quarters, which was a vast heap of loose Stones.
1803 J. Walker in Prize Ess. & Trans. Highland Soc. Scotl. 2 439 Fishes, so enamoured with cold as to prefer the frozen ocean for winter quarters, cannot be supposed to leave their favourite situation during summer season.
1856 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Flower Garden 165 Remove dahlia-roots from their winter quarters.
1890 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 26 34 A frost of several days' duration..sent most of these snails into winter-quarters.
1920 P. J. Fryer Insect Pests & Fungus Dis. Fruit & Hops ii. 18 The bark of the trees affords shelter and winter quarters for many different kinds of pests.
2000 Country Illustr. Apr. 88/3 How do the young shearwaters..without guidance find their way to the traditional winter quarters in South America?
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society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > quartering > [noun] > quarters > winter quarters > period of time in
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1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Quarters Winter-Quarters,..the Space of Time between two Campaigns.
1734 tr. C. Rollin Rom. Hist. III. 402 Which he divides into campaigns and winter-quarters.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XV. 751/1 Winter Quarters, sometimes means the space of time included between leaving the camp and taking the field.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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