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plural gendarmeries
A military body charged with police duties among the civilian population. quotations examples
We must defend it till the Gendarmerie turn out. Keep after me.
1908, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, Bristol: J[ames] W[illiams] Arrowsmith, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, page 259