pasquinade

From Middle French, from Italian pasquinata, from Pasquino, name given to a statue in Rome on which lampoons were posted.[1]

• (UK) IPA^(key): /paskwɪˈneɪd/
• Rhymes: -eɪd

pasquinade (countable and uncountable, plural pasquinades)

1. A lampoon, originally as published in public; a satire or libel on someone.
   • 1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Penguin, published 2000, page 155:

     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.

pasquinade (third-person singular simple present pasquinades, present participle pasquinading, simple past and past participle pasquinaded)

1. (transitive) To satirize (someone) by using a pasquinade.
   • 1841, Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue:

     Chantilly was a quondam cobbler of the Rue St. Denis, who, becoming stage-mad, had attempted the rôle of Xerxes, in Crébillon's tragedy so called, and been notoriously Pasquinaded for his pains.