pasquin

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæskwɪn/

Noun

pasquin (plural pasquins)

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.

Verb

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

1. (rare) To lampoon or satirize.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pasquin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Paquins

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

pasquin m (plural pasquins)

1. pasquin

Further reading

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