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

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 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

Percival responded with a sharp newspaper pasquinade, entitled "A Lecture on Nosology."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 by Various