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

At present, however, the war between the two countries is but a war of libel and pasquinade, and the advantage hitherto has been on the side of the aggressor.

From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Davidson, John

The poetical form in which this pasquinade is written dates from an early period in Castile.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXVI, 1636 by Blair, Emma Helen

And the little pasquinade is so curious, and will fill a gap in that fine collection so nicely!

From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by Burton, John Hill

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)