lanterloo
A meaningless chant or refrain.
Noun
- A meaningless chant or refrain.
- The helmsman began to sing a monotonous, Levantine lanterloo. - 1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.:
- A trick-taking card game popular in 17th-century England, where each player is dealt three or five cards.
Origin
From French lanturlu, originally the refrain of a 16th-century song.