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
I told him, he shou'd not try to pasquinade the Source of his Poesy.
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
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
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
But how are we to understand the uses of the pasquinade Hymn?
From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Lang, Andrew
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