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Rurales

Rurales noun: the Mexican Guardia Rural (Rural Guard), a force of mounted police or gendarmerie that existed between 1861 and 1914.

Noun

Rurales pl (plural only)

  1. (historical, plural, plural-only) The Mexican Guardia Rural (Rural Guard), a force of mounted police or gendarmerie that existed between 1861 and 1914.

Origin of Rurales

Spanish

Questions about Rurales

What does Rurales mean?
Rurales means the Mexican Guardia Rural (Rural Guard), a force of mounted police or gendarmerie that existed between 1861 and 1914.
What part of speech is Rurales?
Rurales is a noun.

Words near Rurales in the dictionary

  1. Rural Gothic
  2. Rural Retreat
  3. rural sanitary district
  4. rural sanitary districts
  5. rural-type settlement
  6. Rurales
  7. ruralisation
  8. ruralise
  9. ruralised
  10. ruralises
  11. ruralish

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