单词 | lansquenet |
释义 | lansquenetn. 1. Historical. One of a class of mercenary soldiers in the German and other continental armies in the 16th and 17th centuries.Originally applied to the serfs brought into the field by the nobles within the territories of the Empire, in contradistinction to the Swiss mercenaries. Subsequently this distinction became obsolete, and the designation seems to have connoted a particular kind of equipment, of which a lance was part. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [noun] > mercenary wagerc1420 knight wager1513 mercenary1523 lance-knight1530 suddart1542 hireling1547 adventurer1548 venturer1572 lansquenet1577 warmonger1590 mercenarian1598 passe-volant1617 provantman1659 soldier of fortune1661 privateer1676 routier1683 bravo1761 stipendiary1768 free companion1804 freelance1819 free-rider1821 freelancer1854 merchant of death1934 merc1967 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1637/1 They prouided the best they coulde to repulse them, appoynting foure Venlyns or ensygnes of Lansquenets to keepe a standing watch that night in the trenches. 1606 T. Dekker Newes from Hell sig. G2v Our Lansquenight of Lowe-Germanie. 1608 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Serres Gen. Inventorie Hist. France (1611) 662 Christopher..brought ten thousand Lansquenets to passe the Alpes. 1622 A. Court Constancie i. 8 Certaine Women..cryed out,..That the Lanskenets had eaten vp Children. 1726–31 N. Tindal tr. P. Rapin de Thoyras Hist. Eng. (1743) II. xvii. 138 Ten thousand Switzers, two thousand Landsquenets. 1824 Ld. Byron Deformed Transformed i. ii From some Stray bullet of our lansquenets. 1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) I. 235 In the year 1513, the authorities hesitated to punish some deserters from the Landsknechts. 1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic I. ii. ii. 319 Some were disguised as hussars, some as miners, some as lansquenettes. 1884 Contemp. Rev. June 818 He gave up entire communes to be pillaged by the lansquenets. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 521/1 The Landsknecht was the prototype of the infantryman of the 16th and 17th centuries. 1936 Burlington Mag. June 294/1 Among the daggers is an elaborate landsknecht one in its sheath. 1944 W. H. Auden Sea & Mirror iii. 56 Our moth-eaten..stock costumes which with only a change of hat and re-arrangement of safety-pins, had to do for the landsknecht and the Parisian art-student. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. I. 610 (caption) Landsknecht sword, first half 16th century. 2. A card game, of German origin. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > others laugh and lie down1522 mack1548 decoyc1555 pinionc1557 to beat the knave out of doors1570 imperial1577 prima vista1587 loadum1591 flush1598 prime1598 thirty-perforce1599 gresco1605 hole1621 my sow's pigged1621 slam1621 fox-mine-host1622 whipperginnie1622 crimpa1637 hundred1636 pinache1641 sequence1653 lady's hole1658 quebas1668 art of memory1674 costly colours1674 penneech1674 plain dealing1674 wit and reason1680 comet1685 lansquenet1687 incertain1689 macham1689 uptails1694 quinze1714 hoc1730 commerce1732 matrimonya1743 tredrille1764 Tom come tickle me1769 tresette1785 snitch'ems1798 tontine1798 blind hazard1816 all fives1838 short cards1845 blind hookey1852 sixty-six1857 skin the lamb1864 brisque1870 handicap1870 manille1874 forty-five1875 slobberhannes1877 fifteen1884 Black Maria1885 slapjack1887 seven-and-a-half1895 pit1904 Russian Bank1915 red dog1919 fan-tan1923 Pelmanism1923 Slippery Sam1923 go fish1933 Russian Banker1937 racing demon1938 pit-a-pat1947 scopa1965 1687 London Gaz. No. 2263/3 Strictly forbidding all Persons..to use or allow any Gaming in their Houses, more particularly the Games of Hoca, Bassett, or Lansquenett. 1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. (1709) 204 We play'd at Lanskenet. 1735 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Lamb Skin-it, a certain Game at Cards. 1766 C. Anstey New Bath Guide ix. iv. 63 And to play I bid adieu, Hazard, Lansquenet, and Loo, Fairest nymph to dance with you. 1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians xli He dines at White's ordinary, and sits down to Macco and lansquenet afterwards. 1885 M. Collins Prettiest Woman in Warsaw I. vi. 100 Each day she dreaded to hear that he had lost everything at lansquenet. 1917 H. H. Richardson Fortunes Richard Mahony I. 9 Even the ‘shepherds’ beguiled the time with euchre and ‘lambskinnet’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1577 |
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