gendarme
noun/ˈʒɒndɑːm/
/ˈʒɑːndɑːrm/
(from French)- a member of the French police forceTopics Law and justicec2Word Originmid 16th cent. (originally denoting a mounted officer in the French army): French, from gens d'armes ‘men of arms’. The current sense dates from the late 18th cent.
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