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marechaussee

marechaussee is the alternative form of maréchaussée.

Meaning of maréchaussée

Noun

maréchaussée (plural maréchaussées)

  1. (historical) A type of guard force in France, French colonies, or sometimes by extension other places, commanded by a marshal (formerly used as a police force before the introduction of the gendarmerie); loosely (chiefly humorous), the police, the constabulary.
    • I do not unite the Maréchaussée, because that corps is destined for a particular service, to which it will be altogether applied in the course of the next campaign, nor should I think it advisable to convert it to any other purpose.1789, George Washington, letter, 6 Feb 1780

Forms of marechaussee

pluralmarechaussees

Questions about marechaussee

What is marechaussee the alternative form of?
Marechaussee is the alternative form of maréchaussée.

Words near marechaussee in the dictionary

  1. mareblobs
  2. marechal
  3. Marechal's test
  4. Marechal-Rosin test
  5. marechals
  6. marechaussee
  7. marechaussees
  8. Marechkawieck
  9. Marechkawiecks
  10. marecottite
  11. Maredia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: marechaussee (page history and authors); maréchaussée (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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