The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pasquin \Pas"quin\, v. t. To lampoon; to satiraze. [R.]
To see himself pasquined and affronted.
--Dryden.
Pasquin \Pas"quin\, 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.
The Grecian wits, who satire first began,
Were pleasant pasquins on the life of man.
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A lampooner. 2 A lampoon; a pasquinade.
Usage examples of "pasquin".
They will be under the guidance of Corporal Pasquin, who is a brave and resourceful NCO, but the two lance corporals, Dean and Claypoole, can think on their feet too.
One thing they all knew for sure: Pasquin, Dean, and Claypoole were definitely in some very deep shit.
Claypoole groused as he looked at the new cards Pasquin had just dealt.
Adak Tanaga was where Pasquin, in charge of a force recon team, had gotten men killed because of negligence.
The way the waitress and Pasquin had hit it off reminded him poignantly of the bar girl on Wanderjahr who died in his arms.
The first sailor Pasquin had observed when they came aboard had a ring in his ear.
That stopped Claypoole in mid-sentence, which was good because both Pasquin and Dean were preparing to thump him.
Claypoole muttered as Pasquin guided him toward the reservations desk.
Giselda was one of the most beautiful whores Pasquin had ever imagined.
To Dean and Pasquin, it seemed she fixed Claypoole with a particularly icy stare.
Marilyn, and despite the fact that Pasquin knew the room was bugged, as soon as she started to undress he forgot all about it.
In the orange glow of the fire, Pasquin could make out figures clambering down the stairs from the street level.
But everyone in the 34th knew Pasquin was neither a screw-up nor a coward.
They had to get inside one of the houses and get warm, but Pasquin knew it would be suicide if watchers were in the village.
About a kilometer outside Royale, where stone walls closed in on the highway from both sides, Pasquin had him stop in the middle of the road.