gendarme
noun /ˈʒɒndɑːm/
/ˈʒɑːndɑːrm/
(from French)- a member of the French police force
Topics Law and justicec2(法国的)警察,宪兵 词源mid 16th cent. (originally denoting a mounted officer in the French army): French, from gens d'armes ‘men of arms’. The current sense dates from the late 18th cent.