gendarme

Borrowed from French gendarme.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈʒɒn.dɑːm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈʒɑn.dɑɹm/

gendarme (plural gendarmes or gensdarmes)

1. A member of the gendarmerie, a military body charged with police duties.
2. Policeman.
   • 2003, Daniele Archibugi, Mathias Koenig-Archibugi, Debating Cosmopolitics, Verso, page 170 :

     The US is tempted to play the role of global gendarme because everyone knows that the UN, as it is, lacks the resources and capacity to fill this role.

3. A rock pinnacle on a mountain ridge.
   • 1979, Chris Jones, Climbing in North America, →ISBN, page 118:

     The previous attempts foundered when they tried to take this gendarme directly.

   • 1998, Climbing - Issues 178-180, page 64:

     The Arete starts easily, with several beautiful, loping pitches leading to a striking gendarme.

   • 2013, Joe Kelsey, Climbing and Hiking in the Wind River Mountains, →ISBN, page 259:

     Continuing to the main summit involves ascents of the gendarmes (the first being the owl-eared one referred to in the next route description) and 140-foot rappels down their south sides.

• (police officer): see Thesaurus:police officer

• red mange

Singular extracted from plural gendarmes, which arose as a re-spelling of gens d'armes (“people of arms", "armed people”).

• IPA^(key): /ʒɑ̃.daʁm/

• audio (un gendarme)

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gendarme m (plural gendarmes)

1. A member of the gendarmerie, a military body charged with police duties.
2. firebug (the insect)

• gendarme allongé

• “gendarme” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• démanger

Borrowed from French gendarme.

gendarme m (plural gendarmi)

1. policeman (armed)

gendarme m (plural gendarmes)

1. gendarme (member of the gendarmerie)

Borrowed from French gendarme.

• IPA^(key): /xenˈdarme/, [xẽn̪ˈd̪arme]

gendarme m (plural gendarmes)

1. (law enforcement) policeman (armed)

• gendarmería

• “gendarme” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.