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
If his friend wishes to bet on the next Pope, he will give him a hint; and now will conclude with the last new pasquinade which has amused the city.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward
That motto from the prologue to Persius' book of satires might be inscribed on the title-page of Gozzi's pasquinade.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo
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
The collocation, in this case, was piquant enough to beget a clever pasquinade, which was chalked up at street corners in Paris.
From Chaucer and His England by Coulton, G. G.
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