Quarters

Residence or place of abode; as, winter quarters, the place where an army lodges during the winter months. We say “this quarter of the town,” meaning this district or part; the French speak of the Latin Quartier—i.e. the district or part of Paris where the medical schools, etc., are located; the Belgians speak of quartiers à louer, lodgings to let; and bachelors in England often say, “Come to my quarters”—i.e. apartments. All these are from the French verb écarter (to set apart).