gendarmery
- a variation of gendarmerie.
Example Sentences
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"Why this display of government forces, army, gendarmery, police?" he once complained.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today, Iran has a gendarmery of 20,000 and a conscript army of 130,000 scattered across the land to maintain internal security.
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
Alerted by Jewish ex-partisans that a big Nazi was in the neighborhood, Wiesenthal checked with the local gendarmery.
From Time Magazine Archive
These Civil Guards are picked men, robust, strapping, seasoned fellows, and are distributed over the country like the French gendarmery, to whose duties theirs are similar.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by O'Shea, John Augustus
