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

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

The poetical form in which this pasquinade is written dates from an early period in Castile.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXVI, 1636 by Blair, Emma Helen

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.

It is an angry pasquinade on an absurd book advocating polygamy on Biblical grounds, by the Rev. Martin Madan, Cowper's quondam spiritual counsellor.

From Cowper by Smith, Goldwin