Tu-ral-lu
,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.”