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
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
That motto from the prologue to Persius' book of satires might be inscribed on the title-page of Gozzi's pasquinade.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo
Charles II. feared the attempt of desperate men; and he might have forgiven Rochester a loose pasquinade, but not Cowley a solemn invocation.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac
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
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