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)

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

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 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