Gendarme (noun)
zhan-darm
a police officer in any of several European countries, especially a French police officer, or the Royal Moroccan police.
1540–50; Middle French, earlier gens d’armes, alteration of gent d’armes people at arms
Example sentences
“The gendarme stopped us and we thought we were in trouble, but he just wanted to tell us a joke about English tourists (true story).”
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