pasquinade

Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.4 Verb

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From French pasquinade, from Pasquin + -ade, modelled on Italian pasquinata.

[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /paskwɪˈneɪd/
• Rhymes: -eɪd

[edit] Noun

pasquinade (plural pasquinades)

1. A lampoon, originally as published in public; a satire or libel on someone.

[edit] Verb

to pasquinade (third-person singular simple present pasquinades, present participle pasquinading, simple past and past participle pasquinaded)

1. (transitive) To satirize (someone) by using a pasquinade.
   • 1841, Edgar Allan Poe, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue":

     Chantilly was a quondam cobbler of the Rue St. Denis, who, becoming stage-mad, had attempted the rôle of Xerxes, in Crébillon's tragedy so called, and been notoriously Pasquinaded for his pains.