Noun
One of a body of heavy cavalry.
An armed policeman in France.
Source: Webster's dictionaryNeither conscience nor sanity itself suggests, that the United States is, or should or could be the global gendarme. Robert McNamara
By the way, a gendarme assured me this is not a prison. E. E. Cummings
A witness said that a gendarme shot Issa Yero Diallo, a 28-year-old woman in Conakry’s Ansoumanyah Plateau neighborhood at close range: “The gendarme threatened the woman before shooting her. Source: Internet
A contrary opinion cannot be equally expected from divisional officers, the police and gendarme, who cannot express any opinion in public without clearance from their superiors. Source: Internet
Other characters, including Guignol's wife Madelon and the gendarme Flageolet soon followed, but these are never much more than foils for the two heroes. Source: Internet
A gendarme was staring straight at him, and when Hampartzoum recognized that he was the gendarme from Parchanj, he knew he was too be tortured. Source: Internet