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call to quarters

–noun
a bugle call summoning soldiers to their quarters.

Origin:
1915–20
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call to quarters  
n.  A signal by a bugle that calls troops to their barracks just before taps.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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