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noun
- 1. a satire or lampoon, originally one displayed or delivered in a public place: "he delivered a long pasquinade at the expense of my friend"
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A pasquinade or pasquil is a form of satire, usually an anonymous brief lampoon in verse or prose, and can also be seen as a form of literary caricature. The genre became popular in early modern Europe, in the 16th century, though the term had been used at least as early as the 4th century, as seen in Augustine's City of God. Pasquinades can take a number of literary forms, including song, epigram... Wikipedia