LekhoriLekhoriA place where people (such as displaced people, soldiers, or travellers) encamp, that is, stay in tents or other temporary structures; a camp or campsite.
As ſoon as he came to the top of thoſe Hills he plainly diſcovered the Creek or Harbour vvhere the Pyrate Ships lay, and vvhere they had form'd their Encampment on the Shore.
A place where people or things stay temporarily.
This was an ancient lobster's house, / A lobster of prodigious nous, / So old that barnacles had spread / Their white encampments o'er its head,— […]
An enclosed or fortified prehistoric site, especially a European Iron Age hill-fort.
a Chinese constellation located near Pegasus, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the larger Black Turtle.
PIE word *h₁én From encamp (“to establish a camp or temporary shelter”) + -ment (suffix forming nouns denoting actions or their results).
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