pasquil

They looked at it curiously, and Maria said: "Surely, Mr. Deane, that is not a true likeness; it is what you call a pasquil—a lampoon—to make ridiculous his Majesty."

The loud hilarity of the maids of honor, whom the wind-up of the last pasquil amused intensely, finally attracted the attention of Anna Bell.

It is not to be marvelled at if the Regent did style the letter a “pasquil.”

There is a caustic pasquil entitled Massinello, or a Satyr against the Association and the Guildhall Plot.

The words pasquil or pasquinade were adopted info almost every European tongue, and soon embraced in their widening signification all sorts of satiric epigrams.