Lansquenet n. : 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.

Lansquenet n. : A game at cards, vulgarly called lambskinnet.

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cards, stake, Lansquenet, sharper, banker, novel, free encyclopedia, bank, dozen cards, pack of cards, card game, sum, the players, Game play, favour, Queen, Ace, Robert-Houdin.

Defination from the web:
Lansquenet is played by D'Artagnan in the Alexandre Dumas novel Twenty Years After. Lansquenet is also played by various characters in the Pierre Choderlos de Laclos novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses. ...