gare

[ gair ]

noun

Origin of gare

1535–45; <Anglo-French, variant of Old French gard, jart

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It seemed no one had the key or the door code for the building at 147 rue La Fayette near the gare du Nord train station in Paris.
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And those memorable dinners in the old studio back of the gare Montparnasse!
The Real Latin Quarter | F. Berkeley Smith
In the cold grey of dawn they descended at last at the great bare gare de l'Est in Paris.
The Doctor of Pimlico | William Le Queux
The gare d'Invalides, whose line runs the opposite direction along the Seine, was also flooded.
Paris Vistas | Helen Davenport Gibbons
Elle na pas la foi, the hostesss voice exhaled like the smoke of incense,—Cest une me gare.
Smoke | Turgenev Ivan Sergeevich

Thus a knife that hangs low down by a persons gare, simply means that the knife hung at the side and not in front.
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