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Definition of Pasquinading
1. pasquinade [v] - See also: pasquinade
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pasquinading
| paspalum paspalums paspies paspy pasque pasque flower pasque flowers pasqueflower pasqueflowers pasquil | pasquils pasquin pasquinade pasquinaded pasquinades pasquinading (current term) |
Literary usage of Pasquinading
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1820)
"They amuse themselves with pasquinading their neighbours in various little
publications, quite unintelligible, out of the precincts of A similar system ..."
2. A Short History of French Literature: (from the Earliest Texts to the Close by George Saintsbury (1901)
"This kind of theological pasquinading was in great favour throughout the period,
and authors of very various merit, such as Marnix de Sainte Aldegonde, ..."
3. Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy by Vernon Lee (1908)
"but they improvised a witty answer here or a comical situation there, parodying,
pasquinading, always entering into the fun of the thing, like that buffo ..."
4. A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury (1892)
"This kind of theological pasquinading was in great favour throughout the period,
and authors of very various merit, such as Marnix de Sainte Aldegonde, ..."
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