lansquenet

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

lansquenet (plural lansquenets)

(historical) Any of a class of German mercenaries in the 16th and 17th centuries.
A card game, used for gambling.
- 2007, Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons, tr. Helen Constantine, p. 196:
  
  And so it was over the game of lansquenet that I scored my first triumph.
- 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:
  
  One could see part of the dimly lit court where under an enclosed poplar two soldiers on a stone bench were playing lansquenet.

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