How To Use Pasquinade In A Sentence
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This famous act of vandalism by Urban VIII inspired the famous pasquinade: Quod non fecerunt barbari fecerunt Barberini.
It Was the Roof
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But there was one noteworthy exception; a pasquinade, that is, something which was stuck up in a public place under cover of darkness, which struck us as genuinely witty; a joke well done.
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Major Caskie -- who ever went into battle with a smile on his lips -- found time, between fights, for broad pasquinade on folly about him, with pen and pencil.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
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Now that Italian society has become increasingly secularised, and the power of the church has ostensibly decreased, contemporary pasquinades do not, in general, lampoon the Vatican.
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In process of time these pasquinate or pasquinades tended to become satirical, and the term began to be applied, not only in Rome but in other countries, to satirical compositions and lampoons, political, ecclesiastical, or personal.
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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.
JERRY BRUCKHEIMER’S LAWS OF SCIENCE
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Voznesensky treats sensitive issues without flinching, but he does so through poetry, not pasquinade.
On Voznesensky
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I was bred in the Tory camp; the Tories put me in Parliament and gave me office; I lived with them and liked them; we dined and voted together, and together pasquinaded our opponents.
Endymion
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On account of his death, {132} which took place just before the time of the carnival in 1829, the usual festivities were omitted, which gave occasion to the following pasquinade, which was much, though privately, circulated --
Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850
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Chantilly was a quondam cobler [[cobbler]] of the Rue St. Denis, who, becoming stage-mad, had attempted the rôle of Xerxes, in Crebillon's tragedy so called, and been notoriously pasquinaded for his pains.
Krimiblog.de
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Harvard College, writing a pasquinade to post upon the Ipswich meeting-house, and Nashaway was "suffered to live without the meanes," waiting for him until 1654.
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885
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Luther at first took it seriously for a forgery -- a mere pasquinade -- until he was assured by the Elector of the genuineness of this and another and similar letter, and thus provoked to take public steps against it.
Life of Luther
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His pasquinade's origins come from his exploration of what he calls the memoir culture.
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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
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
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A mountaineer therefore in Avaria or Koomookha who considered himself aggrieved by a decision of his khan, and who dared not complain openly, could relieve his outraged feelings only by inventing and setting afloat an anonymous pasquinade.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.
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One of the most famous of these ‘pasquinades’ neatly demonstrates how much Romans care about their heritage, for all their apparent nonchalance.
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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.
JERRY BRUCKHEIMER’S LAWS OF SCIENCE
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'pasquinade' as shall take you into these Holy of Holy purlieus of mischief and money-making, you will deserve to be chief of the
Temporal Power
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He repeated a kind of doggrel pasquinade, beginning with --
Tales and Novels — Volume 10
