pasquin

From Pasquino, a mutilated statue at Rome, set up against the wall of the palace 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 satirical notes.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæskwɪn/

pasquin (plural pasquins) (archaic)

1. A lampooner.
2. A lampoon; a pasquinade.
   • C. 1687, John Dryden, Epistle to Henry Higden

     The Grecian wits, who satire first began, / Were pleasant pasquins on the life of man.

pasquin (third-person singular simple present pasquins, present participle pasquining, simple past and past participle pasquined)

1. (rare) To lampoon or satirize.

• “pasquin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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pasquin m (plural pasquins)

1. pasquin

• “pasquin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.