Tûr'lu-pîn, n.

n. [Fr. Turlupin, Turelupin, L. Lat. Turlupinus, or Turelupinus, one of a body of French reformers in the reign of Charles V., about A. D. 1372, probably from Lat. turpis, foul, nasty, and lupus, a wolf, lupa, a she-wolf, a harlot, lupinus, belonging to a wolf, so called from their alleged dissolute life.] (Fr. Eccl. Hist.) One of the precursors of the Reformation; —a nickname corresponding to Lollards, &c.