Definition of "garrison-town" [garrison-town]

• A town in which a garrison is maintained. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "No smart dinner in the country houses of the younger and gayer families within driving distance of the borough was complete without their lively presence; Mrs. Maumbry was the blithest of the whirling figures at the county ball; and when followed that inevitable incident of garrison-town life, an amateur dramatic entertainment, it was just the same."
• "Theodore Lamette was his first colonel, Douai his first garrison-town."
• "The next scene which we adduce is that where the battered figure of a pale, grisly man walks into the garrison-town of Bayonne, after a three-years 'absence, explained only to his disgrace, mutely overcomes the guard, and rings the bell of the Governor's house."