gendarme

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  1. noun A member of the French national police organization constituting a branch of the armed forces with responsibility for general law enforcement.
  2. noun Slang A police officer.

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  • The gendarme was there regarded, like the Jew elsewhere, with a kind of pious aversion, for it was he who arrested Jesus CHAPTER XXVIII. —  The Life of Jesus
  • The chef gendarme was an affable, good-looking young man from la belle France named Jean Luc In Grand Case we were just one happy family. —  AHMM,July-August2006
  • Eugene, this gendarme was named Eugene, pronounce it as you will, had limited English, but he managed to communicate clearly. —  AHMM,December2007
  • Christophe withdrew to the end of the compartment and hid behind the curtain and anxiously watched the platform on which a gendarme was standing motionless. —  Jean-Christophe, Vol. I
  • Once they changed their course hastily to avoid a gendarme, and again they swung wide to circle an omnibus station where there was light and activity Eventually they entered a neat dwelling, the windows of which were carefully curtained. —  021 - The Sea Magician
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  1. French, from Old French gent d'armes, gendarme, sing. of gens d'armes, mounted soldiers, men-at-arms : gens, people, men (from Latin gentēs, pl. of gēns, clan; see genə- in Indo-European roots) + de, of (from Latin dē; see de-) + armes, pl. of arme, weapon; see arm2.

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  1. Also gensdarme; from French gendarme, singular, from plural gens d′armes, men-at-arms: gens, plural, people, folks, persons, men, plural of gent, a nation, people, tribe, race, from Latin gen(t-)s, plural gentes, a race, clan, people (see gens); de, of, at; armes, arms.
 

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