pasquinades

Commissioned at public expense during a famine, it inspired hostile notes, the famous, anonymous pasquinades that were hung near the piazza's south end.

Perfection, Squared Willard Spiegelman 2011

Some pasquinades have been preserved which were made the day after the assassination of

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

He pretended at first to be very devout, and was appointed Pere de l'Oratoire; but, getting tired of this life, he took up the trade of catering for the vices of the Court, and afterwards became the secretary and factotum of Madame du Maine, for whom he used to assist in all the libels and pasquinades which were written against my son.

The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency d'Orleans, Charlotte -Elisabeth, duchesse 2001

The war of political pamphlets, of virulent pasquinades, has ceased, and the ghosts of Junius and Cato, of Gracchus and Cincinnatus, no longer "squeak and gibber" in our modern streets, or torment the air with a hubbub of hoarse noises.

Periodical Indigestion 1997

Knox, instead of attempting to present a case, exhibited a broadside of “The Funeral Dirge of George Washington and James Wilson, King and Judge,” one of the late pasquinades from the pen of Freneau.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

Knox, instead of attempting to present a case, exhibited a broadside of “The Funeral Dirge of George Washington and James Wilson, King and Judge,” one of the late pasquinades from the pen of Freneau.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

Knox, instead of attempting to present a case, exhibited a broadside of “The Funeral Dirge of George Washington and James Wilson, King and Judge,” one of the late pasquinades from the pen of Freneau.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

Knox, instead of attempting to present a case, exhibited a broadside of “The Funeral Dirge of George Washington and James Wilson, King and Judge,” one of the late pasquinades from the pen of Freneau.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

From pasquinades, caricatures, and bits of comedy or satire can be drawn an idea of the popular humor of any era, which the works of great authors fail to convey.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 Various

University, until the publication of some anonymous pasquinades, reflecting severely upon the leading inhabitants, of which he was falsely supposed to be the author.

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan