Pasquinade

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  • noun. A satire or lampoon, especially one that ridicules a specific person, traditionally written and posted in a public place.
  • transitive verb. To ridicule with a pasquinade; satirize or lampoon.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Same as pasquin.
  • To satirize; lampoon; libel in pasquinades. Also pasquil.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A lampoon or satirical writing.
  • transitive verb. To lampoon, to satirize.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A lampoon, originally as published in public; a satire or libel on someone.
  • verb. To satirize (someone) by using a pasquinade.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way
  • Word Usage
    "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."
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