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gendarme

[ US /ˈʒɑnˌdɑɹm/ ]
[ UK /d‍ʒˈɛndɑːm/ ]
NOUN
  1. a French policeman

How To Use gendarme In A Sentence

  • The gendarmery numbers about 4000 men, or 1 to 825 of the inhabitants. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
  • During a visit to the Gendarmerie Headquarters, a man whose face was maculated with blood, both hands tied in the back, was seen being marched across the base escorted by two Gendarmes. Cambodia: UN Memorandum re Executions
  • The mounted gendarmery, too, came up and turned against them. The Life of Marie Antoinette
  • Criminals are usually delivered to the police or the gendarmerie, a military police with a reputation of an uncorrupted elite force.
  • But some early baseball caps sat up, blocky, like what tops the crowns of French gendarmes.
  • One of the gendarmes stumbled dizzily and dropped his rifle.
  • We got to talk about being stopped by the gendarmerie for speeding. Times, Sunday Times
  • There were two gendarmes on bicycles who were liaison agents and a small floating population of chauffeurs and maquisards undertaking various duties.
  • Officials do not deny that thousands of Indian soldiers and gendarmery are stationed in the state to help preserve an outward calm. Muslim and Hindu
  • The gendarmes came and he finally agreed to stay. Times, Sunday Times
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