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a punster or farceur, with turlupinade, and the verb turlupiner. It was usual in the 17th century for play-writers in Italy and France to change their names. Thus Le Grand called himself Belleville in tragedy, and Turlupin in farce; Hugues Guret took the name of Flchelles; and Jean Baptiste Poquelin called himself Moliere, but there was a Molire before him who wrote plays.
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