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Lansquenet

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Lans´que`net
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.
- Longfellow.
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At that time, as they do now, grocers wore the cavalier mustache and the lansquenet beard, only the money baths, already rare in those days, have become almost unknown now.
Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
Porthos was in bed, and was playing a game at LANSQUENET with Mousqueton, to keep his hand in; while a spit loaded with partridges was turning before the fire, and on each side of a large chimneypiece, over two chafing dishes, were boiling two stewpans, from which exhaled a double odor of rabbit and fish stews, rejoicing to the smell.
The Three Musketeers by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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