| 单词 | rural guard |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrural guard rural guard n. (esp. in certain countries of Latin America) a rural police force; (as a count noun) a member of such a force; cf. Rurales n. ΚΠ 1802 Ann. Agric. 38 521 The insufficiency of the centimes (duties raised for municipal purposes), has not permitted the establishment every where of rural guards (gardes champêtres). 1870 A. S. Evans Our Sister Republic xix. 449 The splendidly uniformed commander of the Rural Guard of Puebla, mounted on a fleet little bay horse,..accompanied us from Puebla to Orizaba. 1930 H. S. Duffy William Howard Taft xix. 185 In a series of engagements between the rural guards and the insurrectionists, the rural guards were defeated time after time. 1999 V. C. Peloso Peasants on Plantations i. 26 Chilean occupation officials finally admitted the need for a rural guard, but they refused to allow soldiers to act as police. < as lemmas |
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