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A composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way
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pasquinade
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pasquinade \Pas`quin*ade"\, v. t. To lampoon, to satirize.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way [syn: parody , lampoon , spoof , sendup , mockery , takeoff , burlesque , travesty , charade , put-on ] [also: pasquils , pasquilling , pasquilled , pasquil ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A lampoon, originally as published in public; a satire or libel on someone. vb. (context transitive English) To satirize (someone) by using a pasquinade.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a lampoon," 1650s, from Middle French, from Italian pasquinata (c.1500), from Pasquino , name given to a mutilated ancient statue (now known to represent Menelaus dragging the dead Patroclus) set up by Cardinal Caraffa in his palace in Rome in 1501; the ...
Usage examples of pasquinade.
As this pasquinade made a great noise in Rome, the Pope offered a considerable sum of money to any person that should discover the author of it.
Prone to indulge a strong natural tendency for sarcasm, especially against his political opponents, he published, in a Glasgow newspaper, a severe poetical pasquinade against Mr James Stuart, younger of Dunearn, a leading member of the Liberal party in Edinburgh.
But I will not undertake the task of distinguishing satire from irony, burlesque, caricature, lampoon, travesty, pasquinade, raillery, billingsgate, diatribe, invective, imitation, mimicry, parody, jokes, hoax, and spoof.
The air is full of real and false sweetmeats, pamphlets, pasquinades, and puns.
It was, no doubt, one of those pasquinades which his customers watched him at work upon, thinking, as he did so, how Rome abounded in paradoxical meetings.
Pamphlets and pasquinades were published on both sides of the dispute, which became the general topic of conversation in all assemblies, and people of all ranks espoused one or other party with as much warmth and animosity as had ever inflamed the whigs and tories, even at the most rancorous period of their opposition.
The Grand Inquisitor was utterly overwhelmed by his volume of Pasquinades, a work so witty that it was constantly attributed to Erasmus, and so carefully destroyed that Heinsius gave a hundred gold pieces for the copy which Count Hohendorf afterwards placed among the imperial rarities at Vienna.
Denis, who, becoming stage-mad, had attempted the role of Xerxes, in Crebillon's tragedy so called, and been notoriously Pasquinaded for his pains.