gendarmerie

Related Words

Definitions

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

• The SS, German gendarmerie, and Gestapo were all stationed in its vicinity.

• The boss-nappers gave way when riot cops from the French gendarmerie moved into the building to get them out.

• They were reassured once the police and medics arrived and the hikers and Briton were taken to the gendarmerie for questioning.

• The gendarmerie had been reinforced and were now estimated at 700 without machine guns or artillery.

• One to kill the Turkish Agha of Chal, and the other to kill the man who killed my brother, and who is now in your gendarmerie!

• Telegrams had been despatched, the gendarmerie had been informed, and the British Vice-consul had been interviewed.

• A party of soldiers were at the gateway, and a gendarmerie officer stood near.

• Beside the mairie a medieval square tower, which may have been a donjon, was occupied on the ground floor by the gendarmerie.