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[ zhahn-dahrm; French zhahn-darm ] / ˈʒɑn dɑrm; French ʒɑ̃ˈdarm / SEE SYNONYMS FOR gendarme ON THESAURUS.COM
noun, plural gen·darmes [zhahn-dahrmz; French zhahn-darm]. /ˈʒɑn dɑrmz; French ʒɑ̃ˈdarm/. a police officer in any of several European countries, especially a French police officer. a soldier, especially in France, serving in an army group acting as armed police with authority over civilians. (formerly) a cavalryman in charge of a French cavalry squad. Origin of gendarme1540–50; <Middle French, earlier gens d'armes, alteration of gent d'armes people at arms Words nearby gendarmegena, genal gland, genappe, genappe yarn, Genck, gendarme, gendarmerie, gender, gender bender, gender binary, gender-blind Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for gendarmeIn September, Francis told the Swiss Guard and the Gendarme that the only real threats the Vatican faces are from within. Is The Pope Unprotected Now That He’s Fired the Head of the Swiss Guards?|Barbie Latza Nadeau|December 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST His father was executed in 1942 by a German gendarme after attempting to smuggle a packet of saccharine into the Ghetto. The Week in Death: Irving Milchberg, the Teenage Gunrunner of the Warsaw Ghetto|The Telegraph|March 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST A French gendarme on the case has been dispatched to London, where he will be joined by three additional French investigators. Is Iraqi Family Fight Behind Mysterious Murders in French Alps?|Tracy McNicoll|September 7, 2012|DAILY BEAST What struck me most at the time was that the gendarme officer who examined me offered me a cigarette.
If a gendarme accosted me at night in the streets, I shook all over in the expectation of being removed to a French asylum. My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum|Herman Charles Merivale But the gendarme turned his terrible blood-stained face upon the onlookers, and they slunk off. The Fortune of the Rougons|Emile Zola You have begun by negotiating, you must end by mounting your horse, sabre in hand, like a Parisian gendarme. The Physiology of Marriage, Complete|Honore de Balzac The poacher boldly confessed that he had killed the gendarme, but he swore that the latter had been taking aim at him. The Fortune of the Rougons|Emile Zola
British Dictionary definitions for gendarme/ (ˈʒɒndɑːm, French ʒɑ̃darm) /
nouna member of the police force in France or in countries formerly influenced or controlled by France a slang word for a policeman a sharp pinnacle of rock on a mountain ridge, esp in the Alps Word Origin for gendarmeC16: from French, from gens d'armes people of arms Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to gendarmedetective, force, man, deputy, policeman, constable, officer, marshal, trooper, military police, policewoman, police, patrolman, corps, bluecoat, pig, blue, law, badge, bear |