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

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)

In fact, its St. John was then a junior at Harvard College, writing a pasquinade to post upon the Ipswich meeting-house, and Nashaway was "suffered to live without the meanes," waiting for him until 1654.

From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885 by Various

I will cry ‘bravo’ to every pasquinade Dickens lets off on that demented class, which cried out every time they saw that buffalo-skin over-coat appear: ‘The Gods have come down to us.’

From Why a National Literature Cannot Flourish in the United States of North America by Rocchietti, Joseph