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  • noun Same as gendarmerie.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of gendarmerie.

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  • noun French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively

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Examples

  • 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 Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

  • 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 Foster, Alan Dean 1983

  • 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 Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

  • 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 1969

  • 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 1958

  • The gendarmery numbers about 4000 men, or 1 to 825 of the inhabitants.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

  • 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 Maurice Leblanc 1902

  • 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 Yonge, Charles Duke, 1812-1891 1876

  • The mounted gendarmery, too, came up and turned against them.

    The Life of Marie Antoinette Yonge, Charles Duke, 1812-1891 1876

  • 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 1842

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