Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A carbineer.
- noun A soldier appointed to prevent smuggling; a custom-house guard or coastguard.
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- noun A
frontier guard (or similar) inSpain orSouth America
Etymologies
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Examples
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One of the guards was a female carabinero (policeman) named Ingrid Olderock who was a dog trainer for the police.
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Shortly after the military aides and carabineros officers had left, the lieutenant in charge of the palace carabineros detachment, on orders from his headquarters, instructed a carabinero to go through the palace and tell all members of the detach - ment to leave.
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We could not tell for certain what his avenging missile had been, but the last we saw of the scene was the other carabinero laboriously plucking out of his colleague's nape what we hoped and believed were sea-urchin spines.
Try Anything Twice 1938
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"I went to get my daughter and they pointed a machinegun at her head, and when she picked up her little daughter, another carabinero came and pointed his weapon at her little head," said Ida Huenulef, describing how the police treated her 20-day-old baby granddaughter.
Anarkismo.net 2009
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"I went to get my daughter and they pointed a machinegun at her head, and when she picked up her little daughter, another carabinero came and pointed his weapon at her little head," said Ida Huenulef, describing how the police treated her 20-day-old baby granddaughter.
Anarkismo.net 2009
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In such a case to take the life of a carabinero no one would hesitate! -- "
Ramuntcho Pierre Loti 1886
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