1) Bluecoat in Belgium 2) Calais cop 3) French cop 4) French copper 5) French lawman 6) French policeman 7) French word used in English 8) Languedoctorlawman 9) Maigret colleague 10) Member of the French police 11) Nice cop 12) Officer 13) Overseas officer 14) Police officer 15) Policeman 16) Rue patroller 1) Flic 
[historical] A gendarme was a heavy cavalryman of noble birth, primarily serving in the French army from the Late Medieval to the Early Modern periods of European History. Their heyday was in the late fifteenth to mid sixteenth centuries, when they provided the Kings of France with a potent regular force of heavily armoured, lance-armed cav...[mountaineering] A Gendarme is a pinnacle of rock on a mountain ridge. They are typical of Alpine areas. Gendarmes often form on the intersection of two ridges due to the lower erosion of glaciers here. The name originates from the French Alps, where they were seen as resembling the gendarmerie police. ...
A mass of rock protruding from a ridge that forces the route from the top of the ridge to its side. From the French word for constable or police.
• (n.) An armed policeman in France. • (n.) One of a body of heavy cavalry.
Gen`darme' noun ; plural Gendarmes , or Gens d'armes . [ French] 1. (Mil.) One of a body of heavy cavalry. [ Obsolete] [ France] 2. An armed policeman in France. Thackeray. 
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The Gendarme were a French cavalry regiment formed in 1791. They served as the King's bodyguard up to the time of Louis XVI and after the French Revolution became armed police.
[n] - a French policeman