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pasquinade

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10 lettersPronunciation /paskwɪˈneɪd/Part of speech nounSorted aadeinpqsuStarts with PEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way

Word origin

From Middle French, from Italian pasquinata, from Pasquino, name given to a statue in Rome on which lampoons were posted.

Used in a sentence

  • I thought the whole tale would shortly be served up in racy pasquinade—but Catherine, who might have said anything, didn't say a word.
  • Chantilly was a quondam cobler 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.

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