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 Tolpatchery (nonce-wd.) infantry.
1705. Lond. Gaz., No. 4151/1. The Hungarian Horse were routed, and their Tolpatzes or Foot escaped.
1864. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., XV. ii. IV. 21. Tolpatches, Pandours, Warasdins. Ibid., v. 65. The matter … not one of Tolpatchery alone.
