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▪ I. pasquinade, n.|pæskwɪˈneɪd|
[ad. It. pasquinata: cf. F. pasquinade, and see Pasquin and -ade.]
A lampoon affixed to some public place; a ‘squib’, libel, lampoon, or piece of satire generally.
[1592Wotton in Reliq. (1685) 656 A Pasquinata set forth against him in form of a Prophesie.] 1658Phillips, Pasquinade, a Satyrical Invective or Libel, savoring of the Pasquin at Rome. 1711Addison Spect. No. 23 ⁋4 This Pasquinade made a great Noise in Rome. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 136 The very person who..contrived the honour of the pasquinade on my back this day. 1843Prescott Mexico vii. i. (1864) 411 The white walls of the barracks were covered with epigrams and pasquinades levelled at Cortez. 1934W. Gerhardi Resurrection xv. 43 A man famous for his evil tongue came up and..delivered himself of a long pasquinade at the expense of my friend. 1946W. S. Maugham Then & Now xxxv. 204 A cold shiver ran down his spine at the thought of the pasquinades, the epigrams that his misadventure would suggest. 1977Times Lit. Suppl. 6 May 572/1 The famous pasquinade: ‘quod non fecerunt barbari fecerunt Barberini’.
attrib.1858Borrow Rom. Rye I. 10 A pasquinade picture was stuck up at Rome.
▪ II. pasquinade, v.|pæskwɪˈneɪd|
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To satirize or libel in a pasquinade.
1796Sporting Mag. VII. 312 One of the candidates..has already been pasquinaded. 1880Disraeli Endym. i. 5 We dined and voted together, and together pasquinaded our opponents. |