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
As this pasquinade made a great noise in Rome, the Pope offered a considerable sum of money to any person that should discover the author of it.
From History of English Humour, Vol. 2 by L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan
If, as the old pasquinade had it the Barbarini did what the Barbarians did not, how much worse than barbarians have these modern civilizers done!
From Don Orsino by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
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
This liberty of mockery, pasquinade, and caricature at the expense of the mandarins is one of the most original sides of Chinese manners.
From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by Adams, W. H. Davenport
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