encampment (enkampment)

[ We may calculate that a square of about seven hundred yards was sufficient for the encampment of twenty you sand Romans. Gibbon, Decline and Fall, i. 2. The place where a body of men is encamped; a camp. When a general bids the martial train Spread their encampment o'er the spacious plain, Thick rising tents a canvas city build. Gay, Trivia.