Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
- n. A meaningless chant or refrain.
- n. card games An old trick-taking card game (also known as loo), where each player is dealt three or five cards. It gained much popularity in England in the 17th century, as a gambling game or a domestic pastime.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An old name of
loo (a).
Etymologies
- French lanturlu, originally the refrain of a sixteenth-century song. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Oudart was toping in his office; the gentlemen were playing at tennis; the Lord Basche at in-and-out with my lady; the waiting-men and gentle-women at push-pin; the officers at lanterloo, and the pages at hot-cockles, giving one another smart bangs.”
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
“The third game, or _lanterloo_, is evidently the original form of the game now known as _loo_.”
“Loire was kneading his dough; his wife was sifting meal; Oudart was toping in his office; the gentlemen were playing at tennis; the Lord Basche at in-and-out with my lady; the waiting-men and gentle-women at push-pin; the officers at lanterloo, and the pages at hot-cockles, giving one another smart bangs.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lanterloo’.
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Miscellany, pt. l
lusorious, lyncean, luminous, light-tight, lupuline, lunule, lurkydish, labretifery, lactivist, logopoeia, loxodromic, liripipionated and 11 more...
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Gambling and Gaming
baize, tesserarian, ambidexter, blue chip, one-armed bandit, monte-bank, dicing-house, croupier, hazard, hazardry, gord, junket and 68 more...
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hernesheir My eye caught at the game push-pin in the examples. Sep 15, 2011
ruzuzu From the examples: “Loire was kneading his dough; his wife was sifting meal; Oudart was toping in his office; the gentlemen were playing at tennis; the Lord Basche at in-and-out with my lady; the waiting-men and gentle-women at push-pin; the officers at lanterloo, and the pages at hot-cockles, giving one another smart bangs.” --Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4
Sep 15, 2011