lansquenet
Americannoun
noun
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a gambling game of chance
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an archaic spelling of landsknecht
Etymology
Origin of lansquenet
< French < German Landsknecht
Example Sentences
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You will find there the lansquenet under George von Hewen and Schweinsberg encamped on a hill.
From The Banished A Swabian Historical Tale. In Three Volumes. by Hauff, Wilhelm
The Duke determined to quit the height which the lansquenet occupied, and take up a position in the plain beneath.
From The Banished A Swabian Historical Tale. In Three Volumes. by Hauff, Wilhelm
All games are played there, from lotto to lansquenet.
From Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 by Kock, Charles Paul de
A coarse lansquenet, incapable of understanding that the more he lowered the men the greater he made this Revolution, so vital despite all defections and incapacities.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.
Heavy and the men were playing at lansquenet, that most perilous, rapid, and bewitching of all the resistless Card Circes.
From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida
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