Definition of Pasquinade. Meaning of Pasquinade. Synonyms of Pasquinade

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Definition of Pasquinade

Pasquinade
Pasquinade Pas`quin*ade", n. [F. pasquinade, It. pasquinata.] A lampoon or satirical writing. --Macaulay.
Pasquinade
Pasquinade Pas`quin*ade", v. t. To lampoon, to satirize.

Meaning of Pasquinade from wikipedia

- A pasquinade or pasquil is a form of satire, usually an anonymous brief lampoon in verse or prose, and can also be seen as a form of literary caricature...
- attaching anonymous criticisms to its base. The satirical literary form pasquinade (or "pasquil") takes its name from this tradition. The actual subject...
- Judaeorum" is the opening line of an anonymous 1606 Latin pasquil, or pasquinade (satire), which can be rendered in English as "The Kingdom of Poland is...
- Concerning this, an anonymous contemporary Roman satirist quipped in a pasquinade (a publicly posted poem) that quod non fecerunt barbari fecerunt Barberini...
- post-Napoleonic Moscow, or, as a high official in the play styled it, "a pasquinade on Moscow." The play, written in 1823 in the countryside and in Tiflis...
- as the Council of Four Lands. It was during this period that a rueful pasquinade claiming that Poland was a "paradise for the Jews" gave birth to a proverb...
- construction of the fountain, the city murmured and talk of riot was in the air. Pasquinade writers protested against the construction of the fountain in September...
- the American Revolution. Canards, the successors of the 16th-century pasquinade, were sold in Paris on the street for two centuries, starting in the 17th...
- Weinberg near Halle. In 1789, he was arrested partly on account of a pasquinade he had written concerning a religious edict p****ed by Prussia the year...
- most prominent rival, Pasquin. As at the other five "talking statues", pasquinades—irreverent satires poking fun at public figures—were posted beside Marforio...