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loo
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synonyms: lanterloo ???
tags: [recreation]
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Definition:(a) An old game played with five, or three, cards dealt to each player from a full pack. When five cards are used the highest card is the knave of clubs or (if so agreed upon) the knave of trumps; -- formerly called lanterloo.(b) A modification of the game of "all fours" in which the players replenish their hands after each round by drawing each a card from the pack.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)---a 17th-century trick taking game of the Trump family of which many varieties are recorded. It belongs to a line of card games whose members include Nap, Euchre, Rams, Hombre, and Maw (Spoil Five). It is considered a modification of the game of "All Fours", another English game possibly of Dutch origin, in which the players replenish their hands after each round by drawing each fresh new cards from the pack.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealikegratuitous shuffle noise: by empraetorius, license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/https://www.freesound.org/people/empraetorius/sounds/201253/ (original trimmed/edited to reduce file size)
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In the evening we dance and sing, or play at commerce, loo, and quadrille.
Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
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Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley had spent some hours of the morning with the invalid, who continued, though slowly, to mend; and in the evening Elizabeth joined their party in the drawing-room. The loo table, however, did not appear.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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‘Augustus, my love,’ said Miss Pecksniff, ‘ask the price of the eight rosewood chairs, and the loo table.’
Charles Dickens. Martin Chuzzlewit (1843)
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handtufted Axminster carpet with cream ground and trellis border, loo table with pillar and claw legsJames Joyce. Ulysses
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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. They were all immediately informed that a catchpole was housed.
François Rabelais. Gargantua and Pantagruel
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If you would recommend to our Wives and Daughters, who read your Papers with a great deal of Pleasure, some of those Sports and Pastimes that may be practised within Doors, and by the Fire-side, we who are Masters of Families should be hugely obliged to you. I need not tell you that I would have these Sports and Pastimes not only merry but innocent, for which Reason I have not mentioned either Whisk or Lanterloo, nor indeed so much as One and Thirty.
Addison. The Spectator, No 245, Tuesday, December 11, 1711
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