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

Could there be any thing better than a pasquinade which appeared during the conference upon Italian affairs at Z�rich between the representatives of Austria, Italy, and France?

From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James

The inscription, a very poor one, excited considerable ridicule, and a pasquinade was circulated lamenting the absence of the nine Muses on the occasion of its composition.

From Cuba Past and Present by Davey, Richard

That Goth and Vandal have not wrought more havoc than emperors, people, and popes is recorded in the pasquinade on Urban VIII.

From Rome by Malleson, Hope

The pasquinade with its supplements comprised no less than 351 folios, 280 of which were devoted to the answer proper.

From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by Bente, F. (Friedrich)