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pasquinade

[pas-kwuh-nayd] / ˌpæs kwəˈneɪd /
NOUN
imitative composition
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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

It is—that, even where no disposition is manifested to copy either the éloge or the libellous pasquinade, too generally the author appears ex officio as the constant 'patronus' or legal advocate for the person recorded.

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp

A price of two thousand guldens was set on his head, which gave Vondel cause for another trenchant pasquinade.

From Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel

It was at him, while minister, the pasquinade was leveled, "You had better declare, which you may without shocking 'em, The nation's asleep and the minister Rocking'em."

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake

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 F. (Friedrich) Bente

I was bred in the Tory camp; the Tories put me in Parliament and gave me office; I lived with them and liked them; we dined and voted together, and together pasquinaded our opponents.

From Endymion by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield


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