Definition of "pasquinade" [pas•quin•ade]

• A satire or lampoon, especially one that ridicules a specific person, traditionally written and posted in a public place. (noun)
• To ridicule with a pasquinade; satirize or lampoon. (verb-transitive)

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• "I mean, assuming the "New Yorker Cartoon Law of Biting Satire", which states that the jocularity of a particular pasquinade is directly proportional to the abstruseness of the language in which you couch it, it was hilarious."
• "'pasquinade' as shall take you into these Holy of Holy purlieus of mischief and money-making, you will deserve to be chief of the"
• "Lucy, his treatment must have been galling and humiliating; for it so wrought upon his spirit as to produce a rough pasquinade, which was affixed to the park gate at Charlecot. 43 43"