释义 |
‖ garde champêtre|gard ʃɑ̃pɛtr| [Fr., lit. ‘rural guard’.] A rural policeman; a gamekeeper.
1814M. Birkbeck Journey through France 97 In the country, the Garde champetres, a revolutionary institution, are the great means..of crushing them [sc. crimes] in the egg. 1831Edin. Rev. LIV. 309 The village poacher will find him [sc. the farmer] a more active garde champêtre than any keeper. 1957G. Bellairs Death in High Provence iii. 29 The garde champêtre, the mayor's run-about, mainly concerned with duties as game and forest warden. |