gendarmerie
See also: Gendarmerie
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From French gendarmerie.
Noun
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
military body charged with police duties
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French
Etymology
From gendarme.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʒɑ̃.daʁ.mə.ʁi/
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Further reading
- “gendarmerie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
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