Definition of "gendarme" []

• A member of the French national police organization constituting a branch of the armed forces with responsibility for general law enforcement. (noun)
• Slang A police officer. (noun)

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• ""Shall I call a gendarme, Monsieur, and have him search for your nurse?""
• "When Rougon heard the word gendarme, he thought he understood her."
• "He finished with a gesture of supreme disgust, as if friendship with a gendarme were the basest of crimes."