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 was among the earliest of the terraces in the Park, and its whimsical contrast with the chaster beauties of the adjoining structures soon became the signal for critical pasquinade.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 367, April 25, 1829 by Various

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

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

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.