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the refrain of comic songs, is a corruption of the Italian turluru, and the French turlureau or turelure. ?Loure? is an old French word for a bagpipe, and ?toure loure? means a refrain on the bagpipe. The refrain of a French song published in 1697 is-
Toure loure, lourirette Lironfa, toure lourira.
Saite du Thtre Italien, iii. p. 453.
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