[ˈʒɒ̃dɑːm], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a paramilitary police officer in France and other French-speaking countries
(e.g: he was hauled off by a gendarme to the police station)

- a rock pinnacle on a mountain, occupying and blocking an arête
(e.g: the granite pillars and gendarmes kept the sun from warming us)


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Origin:
mid 16th century (originally denoting a mounted officer in the French army): French, from gens d'armes ‘men of arms’. gendarme dates from the late 18th century