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gendarmery

NOUN
  1. French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively

How To Use gendarmery 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"
  • The mounted gendarmery, too, came up and turned against them. The Life of Marie Antoinette
  • 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 Swiss Guard of about a thousand men were all trustworthy; and there was also a small body of heavy cavalry of the gendarmery who had proved true enough to resist all the seductions of the conspirators. The Life of Marie Antoinette
  • Thereupon, at the suggestion of Mme. Morestal, who had taken up the second receiver, she asked to be put on to the gendarmery. The Frontier
  • On learning of the place of confinement of the woman who had been arrested, he presented himself at the doors, and passed so well for a smart young officer of gendarmery that the sentry saluted and sprang to attention. Dead Souls
  • If Mother Mastiff had retained enough presence of mind to remember that the Drallarian gendarmery occasionally employed the services of tracking animals-for the first time hope crowded despair from Flinx's thoughts. For Love of Mother-Not
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