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Definition of Gendarmeries
1. gendarmery [n] - See also: gendarmery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gendarmeries
Literary usage of Gendarmeries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Treaties and Agreements with and Concerning China, 1894-1919: A Collection by John Van Antwerp MacMurray (1921)
"... for the Office of Chiang Chun 35.293.60 Expenses for the President's Office
104000.00 Expenses for the Yamen of the Commander-in-chief of gendarmeries. ..."
2. Report of the International Commission to Inquire Into the Causes and (1914)
"The daughter of the commander of the gendarmeries, Suleiman Effendi, who is now
in Constantinople, was summoned one night to the bishopric to be converted ..."
3. The Trade and Administration of the Chinese Empire by Hosea Ballou Morse, Francis Lister Hawks Pott, A. T. Piry (1908)
"... Equipage Department, Imperial Household, Banner Battalions, Imperial Guards,
Peking gendarmeries, the city of Peking as well as the Peking Granaries, ..."
4. The Modern Régime by Hippolyte Taine (1894)
"... in the magistrature, in the gendarmeries, and in the police.9 Such, in all
branches of social life, is the universal and final effect of the Revolution. ..."
5. Why War by Frederic Clemson Howe (1916)
"... and Russian Governments jointly to advance $2000000 to Persia, in addition to
the special British advance of $500000 for the gendarmeries at Fars. ..."
6. Missionary Review of the World (1917)
"Now over fifty gendarmes at this base have become members of the League, among
whom are the two chiefs of the different gendarmeries. The work has also been ..."
7. The Diplomacy of the United States: Being an Account of the Foreign by Theodore Lyman (1828)
"Armies, navies, inquisitions, bastilles, gendarmeries, make a formidable figure
in history, but they possess little of that elastic, ceaseless, ..."
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