gendarmerie
noun
gendarmery
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a variation of
gendarmerie.
Example Sentences
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But Tshombe wanted all or nothing: virtual independence for Katanga, his own gendarmery, and a corps of foreign mercenaries to run it.
From Time Magazine Archive
But though the bandit chief rates as Iran's Public Enemy No. 1, his business, a strictly domestic affair, has gone largely unhampered by the Shah's gendarmery.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Why this display of government forces, army, gendarmery, police?" he once complained.
From Time Magazine Archive
Alerted by Jewish ex-partisans that a big Nazi was in the neighborhood, Wiesenthal checked with the local gendarmery.
From Time Magazine Archive
The mounted gendarmery, too, came up and turned against them.
From The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France by Charles Duke Yonge
