Obs. Forms: 7 lanter(e)loo, (langtrilloo, lanktraloo), 8 lan(g)teraloo, lanctrelooe, lantreloo. [ad. F. lantur(e)lu, orig. the unmeaning refrain of a song popular in the 17th c. (cf. the earlier laturelure). Cf. Du. lanterlu.] The older form of the game now called LOO. (The knave of clubs, called ‘Pam,’ was the highest card.)
1668. Etheredge, She wou’d if She cou’d, V. i. Wks. (1888), 213. They are … playing at lanterloo with my old Lady Loveyouth and her daughter.
1679. Shadwell, True Widow, IV. 49. Let’s send for some Cards, and play at Lang-trilloo in the Box.
1685. Crowne, Sir Courtly Nice, III. 22. Thou art … the very Pam at Lantereloo, the knave that picks up all.
1710. Steele, Tatler, No. 245, ¶ 2. An old Ninepence bent both Ways by Lilly, the Almanack-maker for Luck at Langteraloo.
1711. Puckle, Club, § 123. 23. Guess then the numbers of frauds there are at … Lantreloo.
