pasquinade

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Excerpt from Author Feuchtwanger's pasquinade: He opened up his checkbook to the sky But the sky showed no expression.

From Time Magazine Archive

This liberty of mockery, pasquinade, and caricature at the expense of the mandarins is one of the most original sides of Chinese manners.

From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by Adams, W. H. Davenport

As this pasquinade made a great noise in Rome, the Pope offered a considerable sum of money to any person that should discover the author of it.

From History of English Humour, Vol. 2 by L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan

I told him, he shou'd not try to pasquinade the Source of his Poesy.

From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)

In fact, its St. John was then a junior at Harvard College, writing a pasquinade to post upon the Ipswich meeting-house, and Nashaway was "suffered to live without the meanes," waiting for him until 1654.

From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885 by Various