lanterloo

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lanterloo

  • /læntəˈluː/

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

noun lanterloos

  1. countable A meaningless chant or refrain. The helmsman began to sing a monotonous, Levantine lanterloo.
  2. uncountable A trick-taking card game popular in 17th-century England, where each player is dealt three or five cards.

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