genappe (jenap)

[ We come not here, my lord, said they, with armes For to resist the chok of thy Gens d'armes. T. Hudson, tr. of Du Bartas's Judith, v. 538. 2. In France, since the Revolution, one of the corps of national police, a body organized, uniformed, and drilled like soldiers, and considered, in a sense, a privileged corps of the French army: also used for a policeman of a similar corps in some other European countries. See gendarmerie , 2. gendarmerie, gendarmery (zhon-där'mė-rē, jen-där'me-ri), n. [Formerly also gensdarmerie, gendarmory, gendarmourie; 2481 tions also called by some by the name gender: thus, that of animate and inanimate objects in American languages; a manifold distinction (of obscure origin) in South African languages, and so on. Some languages, like the modern French, have lost the neuter gender, and have masculine and feminine only; some, like English, have no gender except in a few pronouns, as he, she, it; some, like modern Persian, have no gender whatever. generable