Definition of "lansquenets" [lansquenets]

• Plural form of lansquenet. (noun)

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• "Rouen, and tied up to his girdle the bark all full of salt, as easily as the lansquenets carry their little panniers, and so set onward on his way with his fellow-soldiers."
• "Even at the height of the Renaissance, twelve thousand lansquenets in the pay of the imperial armies sacked and devastated Rome and put eight thousand of its inhabitants to the sword."
• "Another would volunteer to lead a muster of lansquenets in the north."