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‖ ˈtolpatch
Also tolpatz.
[Ger. tolpatsch, earlier tolpatz: according to Kluyver (Beitr. XXX. 211), Magyar talpas foot-soldier, f. talp sole of the foot.]
A foot-soldier. Hence ˈtolpatchery (nonce-wd.), infantry.
1705Lond. Gaz. No. 4151/1 The Hungarian Horse were routed, and their Tolpatzes or Foot escaped. 1864Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xv. ii. IV. 21 Tolpatches, Pandours, Warasdins. Ibid. v. 65 The matter..not one of Tolpatchery alone. |