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

That Goth and Vandal have not wrought more havoc than emperors, people, and popes is recorded in the pasquinade on Urban VIII.

From Rome by Malleson, Hope

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

Could there be any thing better than a pasquinade which appeared during the conference upon Italian affairs at Z�rich between the representatives of Austria, Italy, and France?

From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James

And the little pasquinade is so curious, and will fill a gap in that fine collection so nicely!

From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by Burton, John Hill