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Where does “maréchaussée” come from?

maréchaussée (English) comes from French maréchaussée, from Old French mareschaucie — marshalcy.

maréchaussée (English): A type of local guard force, especially in...

Definitions

  1. A type of local guard force, especially in...

Ancestry of “maréchaussée”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchmaréchausséemaréchaussée; constabulary
2Old Frenchmareschauciemarshalcy
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