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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F., fr. G.

landsknecht

a foot soldier, also a game of cards introduced by these foot soldiers;

land

country +

knecht

boy, servant. See

, and

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.

A game at cards, vulgarly called

lambskinnet

[They play] their little game of

lansquenet

Longfellow.

Noun.

[lance and knecht, a boy, a knight.]

A common foot soldier.

A game at cards.