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gendarme

noun
🔊/ˈʒɒndɑːm/
🔊/ˈʒɑːndɑːrm/
 (from French)
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  1. a member of the French police force（法国的）警察，宪兵Topics Law and justicec2
    Word 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.