gendarmerie

noun gen·dar·mer·ie \ zhän-ˈdär-mə-rē , jän- \

variants: or gendarmery

|Updated on: 22 Jul 2018

Definition of gendarmerie

plural gendarmeries

: a body of gendarmes

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Since his arrest in April, he had been held in a cell in the barracks of the Vatican’s gendarmerie.

— francis x. rocca, WSJ, "Vatican Ex-Diplomat Convicted of Child Pornography Charges," 23 June 2018
Italian authorities have since confirmed to National Geographic that the find is the result of a significant criminal investigation known as Operazione Artemide (Operation Artemis), led by Italy's national gendarmerie, the Carabinieri.

— National Geographic, "Horses Found in Pompeii May Have Been Harnessed to Flee Eruption," 24 May 2018
Beltrame, 44, was a lieutenant colonel in the gendarmerie, a part of the French military that focuses on domestic policing.

— adam taylor, Washington Post, "‘He saved lives’: Arnaud Beltrame, police officer who traded places with a hostage, to be honored by France," 24 Mar. 2018
The Vatican said in a statement that its police force, known as the gendarmerie, had arrested Italian Msgr.

— francis x. rocca, WSJ, "Vatican Diplomat Arrested on Child Porn Suspicions," 7 Apr. 2018
The former diplomat, who served most recently at the Holy See’s embassy in Washington, was being held in a cell in the gendarmerie’s barracks, the statement said.

— francis x. rocca, WSJ, "Vatican Diplomat Arrested on Child Porn Suspicions," 7 Apr. 2018
The Vatican on Saturday said Monsignor Carlo Capella was being held in gendarmerie barracks inside the Vatican, and that his arrest follows a Vatican investigation.

— Fox News, "Vatican arrests diplomat accused of viewing child porn," 7 Apr. 2018
He was later chosen to join the gendarmerie's elite GSIGN in 2003, and he was deployed to Iraq in 2005.

— adam taylor, Washington Post, "‘He saved lives’: Arnaud Beltrame, police officer who traded places with a hostage, to be honored by France," 24 Mar. 2018
About 200 of Beltrame's colleagues from the gendarmerie, a national police force, which is part of the military, attended the ceremony in Paris.

— deutsche welle, USA TODAY, "France honors 'hero' policeman who died in terrorist attack," 28 Mar. 2018

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Origin and Etymology of gendarmerie

French gendarmerie, from gendarme

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