Definition of Gendarmerie

1. Noun. French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively.

Exact synonyms: Gendarmery
Generic synonyms: Constabulary, Law, Police, Police Force
Member holonyms: Gendarme

Definition of Gendarmerie

1. Noun. A military body charged with police duties among the civilian population. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gendarmerie

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gendarmerie

gemutlich
gemutlichkeit
gemutlichkeits
gen
gen X
gena
genal
genal glands
genappe
genappes
genas
genbank
genco
gencos
gendarme
gendarmerie (current term)
gendarmeries
gendarmery
gendarmes
gender-blind
gender-free
gender-neutral
gender-neutral pronoun
gender-neutral pronouns
gender agreement
gender benders
gender bias

Literary usage of Gendarmerie

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"In 1439 this feudal gendarmerie was replaced by the compagnie» d ordonnance ... In time of war a colonel of gendarmerie, with the title of grand-prévôt, ..."

2. Three Months in the Soudan by Ernestine Sartorius (1885)
"CLIFFORD LLOYD, WHO WISHES TO CHANGE THE gendarmerie INTO ENGLISH POLICEMEN—UNSUITABILITY ... Accordingly, the army and gendarmerie, especially the latter, ..."

3. The War in Egypt and the Soudan: An Episode in the History of the British by Thomas Archer (1886)
"The administration of the gendarmerie was, as we have seen, placed under the minister of the interior, but its organization was intrusted to General Baker ..."

4. System of Positive Polity by Auguste Comte (1877)
"... so that the only class to be considered would be the superior officers; the increase of the gendarmerie, naturally with suitable appointments, ..."

5. Commercial Handbook of China by Julean Arnold (1920)
"PEKING gendarmerie (PU CHUN T'UNG LING YA MEN). The Peking gendarmerie is an armed police force (with an organization distinct from either the regular ..."

6. Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages and at the Period of the by P. L. Jacob (1874)
"The gendarmerie.— Tho Lances Fournie*.—"Weakening of Feudal Military Obligations.—The French Army in the Time of Louis XI. and his Successors. ..."

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