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Grammar : Noun
Spell : pas-kwuh-neyd
Phonetic Transcription : ˌpæs kwəˈneɪd


Définition of pasquinade

Origin :
  • "a lampoon," 1650s, from Middle French, from Italian pasquinata (c.1500), from Pasquino, name given to a mutilated ancient statue (now known to represent Menelaus dragging the dead Patroclus) set up by Cardinal Caraffa in his palace in Rome in 1501; the locals named it after a schoolmaster (or tailor, or barber) named Pasquino who lived nearby. A custom developed of posting satirical verses and lampoons on the statue.
  • noun imitative composition
Example sentences :
  • The author of the pasquinade in question is, I believe, unknown.
  • Extract from : « Notes and Queries, Number 139, June 26, 1852 » by Various
  • A pasquinade printed as a broadside and stuck up in New York city.
  • Extract from : « Poems of American History » by Various
  • I told him, he shou'd not try to pasquinade the Source of his Poesy.
  • Extract from : « Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 » by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
  • But how are we to understand the uses of the pasquinade Hymn?
  • Extract from : « The Homeric Hymns » by Andrew Lang
  • The pasquinade or the squib gets a hold on the mind, and in its very drollery will ensure its being retained there.'
  • Extract from : « Lord Kilgobbin » by Charles Lever
  • A pasquinade, comparing his reign to that of Nero, was affixed to the palace gate.
  • Extract from : « History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) » by John William Draper
  • Cudgelling was at one time used as the remedy in cases of outrageous libel and pasquinade.
  • Extract from : « The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 » by Thomas de Quincey
  • That motto from the prologue to Persius' book of satires might be inscribed on the title-page of Gozzi's pasquinade.
  • Extract from : « The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the first » by Count Carlo Gozzi
  • A pasquinade was originally an anonymous lampoon affixed to a statue of a gladiator which still stands in Rome.
  • Extract from : « The Romance of Words (4th ed.) » by Ernest Weekley

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