Hypertext Webster Gateway: "lansquenet"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lansquenet \Lans"que*net\, n. [F., fr. G. landsknecht a foot
soldier, also a game of cards introduced by these foot
soldiers; land country + knecht boy, servant. See {Land}, and
{Knight}.]
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.
Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents;
see the Webster Gateway FAQ,
and also the Back-end/database links and credits.