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单词 lanterloo
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lanterloon.

/ˈlantəluː/
Forms: 1600s lantereloo, lantrelou, ( langtrilloo, lanktraloo), 1700s lan(g)teraloo, lanctrelooe, lantreloo.
Etymology: < French lantur(e)lu, originally the unmeaning refrain of a song popular in the 17th cent. (compare the earlier laturelure). Compare Dutch lanterlu.
1. The older form of the game now called loo n.1 (The knave of clubs, called ‘Pam’, was the highest card.) Obsolete.
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1668 G. Etherege She wou'd if she Cou'd v. i. 73 They are..playing at Lantre-lou, with my old Lady Love-youth and her Daughters.
1679 T. Shadwell True Widow iv. 49 Let's send for some Cards, and play at Lang-trilloo in the Box.
1685 J. Crowne Sir Courtly Nice iii. 22 Thou art..the very Pam at Lantereloo, the Knave that picks up all.
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 245. ⁋2 An old Ninepence bent both Ways by Lilly, the Almanack-maker for Luck at Langteraloo.
1711 J. Puckle Club §123. 23 Guess then the numbers of frauds there are at..Lantreloo.
2. Used as a meaningless refrain (cf. etymology).
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1951 W. H. Auden & C. Kallman Rake's Progress i. 17 The sun is bright, the grass is green: Lanterloo, lanterloo. The King is courting his young Queen. Lanterloo, my lady.
1951 W. H. Auden Nones (1952) 54 Turning his barrel-organ, playing Lanterloo, my lovely, my First-of-May.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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