carabineron.
A customs or revenue officer; a frontier guard.
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1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. iii. 324 The expensive preventive service of Resguardos, Carabineros, etc. which is every where established..to put down the smuggler.
1883 Ld. Saltoun Scraps I. ii. 216 The carabineros, or revenue officers, might be so disposed of as to leave the coast clear.
1955 J. Thomas No Banners viii. 67 They knew they could never hope to reach Barcelona with a pack of irate carabineros on their trail.
1957 P. Kemp Mine were of Trouble i. 13 Carabineros, or frontier guards, in light green and flat peaked caps.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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