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

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

A pasquinade, comparing his reign to that of Nero, was affixed to the palace gate.

From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William

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

From Parson Kelly by Lang, Andrew

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.