lansquenet

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Definition von lansquenet im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

A card game, used for gambling

One could see part of the dimly lit court where under an enclosed poplar two soldiers on a stone bench were playing lansquenet.

Any of a class of German mercenaries in the 16th and 17th centuries

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 card-game, used for gambling

A game at cards, vulgarly called lambskinnet

Silbentrennung

lans·que·net

Etymologie

() From French lansquenet, from German Landsknecht, from Land + Knecht.