# lanterloo

Pronunciation: US say "lan-tur-LOO" /ˌlæntɚˈlu/; UK say "lan-tuh-LOO" /læntəˈluː/

## Noun

1. A card game, widely played in 17th-century England, in which players took tricks with hands of three or five cards.
   - Simple: An old card game, liked in England in the 1600s, where each player gets three or five cards.
   - _The museum's games night revived lanterloo, dealing each player five cards._
   - _The tavern regulars passed long winter evenings at lanterloo, betting pennies on every trick._
2. A chant or refrain made up of words that have no meaning.
   - Simple: A song line or chant made of words that mean nothing.
   - _As the night wore on, the fishermen fell into a droning lanterloo that kept time with the oars._
   - _She hummed some half-remembered lanterloo from her childhood while she folded the laundry._

## Origin

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

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/lanterloo (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).