lanterloo

From French lanturlu, originally the refrain of a 16th-century song.

• IPA^(key): /læntəˈluː/

lanterloo (countable and uncountable, plural lanterloos)

1. (countable) A meaningless chant or refrain.
   • 1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.:

     The helmsman began to sing a monotonous, Levantine lanterloo.

2. (uncountable, card games) A trick-taking card game popular in 17th-century England, where each player is dealt three or five cards.

• (card game): loo

• loo

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