gendarmerie
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See also: Gendarmerie
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French gendarmerie.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
gendarmerie (plural gendarmeries)
- A military body charged with police duties among the civilian population.
- 1908, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, Bristol: J[ames] W[illiams] Arrowsmith, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, →OCLC, page 259:
- We must defend it till the Gendarmerie turn out. Keep after me.
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Translations[edit]
military body charged with police duties
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From gendarme.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
gendarmerie f (plural gendarmeries)
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “gendarmerie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian[edit]
Noun[edit]
gendarmerie f pl
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