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

The Roundheads, a masterly pasquinade, shows the Puritans, near ancestors of the Whigs, in their most odious and veritable colours.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I by Summers, Montague

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

A pasquinade was originally an anonymous lampoon affixed to a statue of a gladiator which still stands in Rome.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest

Moreover, Lady Mary was purely ignorant of Miss Townley's very existence when that pasquinade was written.'

From Parson Kelly by Lang, Andrew