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Lansquenet   Listen
noun
Lansquenet  n.  
1.
A German foot soldier in foreign service in the 15th and 16th centuries; a soldier of fortune; a term used in France and Western Europe.
2.
A game at cards, vulgarly called lambskinnet. "(They play) their little game of lansquenet."





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"Lansquenet" Quotes from Famous Books



... this. Count Victor took all in at a glance and found revealed to him in a flash the colossal mendacity of all the Camerons, Macgregors, and Macdonalds who had implied, if they had not deliberately stated, over many games of piquet or lansquenet at Cammercy, the magnificence of the typical ...
— Doom Castle • Neil Munro
... replied Charlotte, with mock solemnity, "that lansquenet can be played, and that tradesmen's bills can be put ...
— Out in the Forty-Five - Duncan Keith's Vow • Emily Sarah Holt
... players seemed to pride themselves upon not showing the slightest change in their countenances, whether they won or lost. The game itself is very simple, and has some points of resemblance to that of lansquenet, known in Europe. The first two cards in the pack, say a four and a king, are laid down, face up, on the table, and the gamblers put down their money against one or the other. Then the croupier deals the cards out slowly and solemnly one after another, calling out ...
— Anahuac • Edward Burnett Tylor


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