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gendarmaria
Catalan
gendarmeria

French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively.

        gendarmaria
        1
        The mounted gendarmery, too, came up and turned against them.
        The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France
        2
        Baker Pasha formed a provincial gendarmery, and Sir Evelyn Wood organised an army of six thousand men.
        History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 12 (o...