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pasquin
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pasquin, n. [It. pasquino a mutilated statue at Rome, set up against the wall of the place of the Orsini; -- so called from a witty cobbler or tailor, near whose shop the statue was dug up. On this statue it was customary to paste satiric papers.].
A lampooner; also, a lampoon. See Pasquinade. [1913 Webster]
"The Grecian wits, who satire first began,
Were pleasant pasquins on the life of man." [1913 Webster]
Were pleasant pasquins on the life of man." [1913 Webster]
pasquin, v. t.
To lampoon; to satiraze. [1913 Webster]
"To see himself pasquined and affronted."
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