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Pasquinade

Definition: Pasquinade

Pasquinade

Noun

1. A composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "pasquinade" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Pasquinade

DomainDefinitions

Language

A lampoon or satire usu. having a political significance (a writer of farce, burlesque and incisive -- of political criticism. . Source: European Union. (references)

Literature

Pasquinade (3 syl.). A lampoon or political squib, having ridicule for its object; so called from Pasquino, an Italian tailor of the fifteenth century, noted for his caustic wit. Some time after his death a mutilated statue was dug up, representing either Ajax supporting Menelaos, or Menelaos carrying the dead body of Patroclos, or else a gladiator, and was placed at the end of the Braschi Palace near the Piazza Navoni. As it was not clear what the statute represented, and as it stood opposite Pasquin's house, the Italians called it "Pasquin." The Romans made this torso the depository of their political, religious, and personal satires, which were therefore called Pasquin-songs or Pasquinades. In the Capitol is a rival statue called Marforio, to which are affixed replies to the Pasquinades. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Pasquinade

Synonyms: burlesque (n), charade (n), lampoon (n), mockery (n), parody (n), put-on (n), sendup (n), spoof (n), takeoff (n), travesty (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Pasquinade

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Detraction

Personality, libel, lampoon, skit, pasquinade; chronique scandaleuse; roorback.

Personality, libel, lampoon, skit, pasquinade; chronique scandaleuse; roorback.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Pasquinade

English words defined with "pasquinade": Pasquin. (references)
Specialty definitions using "pasquinade": Marforio. (references)

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Modern Translations: Pasquinade

Language Translations for "pasquinade"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

Paskuin, Pamflet Satirik. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

Пасквил. (various references)

   

French

  

pasquinade. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

Gúnyirat (lampoon, libel, satire, squib). (various references)

   

Italian

  

Pasquinata, Satira (lampoon, satire, skit). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

asquinadepay

   

Portuguese

  

pulsatila (pulsatilla), pasquinada (lampoon, skit). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

pamflet (lampoon, libel, pamphlet, squib, tract), satirã (ridicule, satire, skit, squib). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

пасквиль (lampoon). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pogrdan spis, paskvila. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pasquín (lampoon). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

paskill, smädeskrift (lampoon, libel). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

пасквіль (bill). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

b i phỉ báng. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Pasquinade

Derivations

Words beginning with "pasquinade": pasquinaded, pasquinades. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Pasquinade" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pasquinader, Pasquini, Pasundan. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Pasquinade

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-i-n-p-q-s-u"

-2 letters: diapause.

-3 letters: naiades, paesani, pandies.

-4 letters: adieus, apneas, equids, equips, indues, naiads, nausea, nudies, paeans, paesan, pained, paisan, pandas, paused, piqued, piques, puisne, queans, sained, sendup, sequin, sniped, spined, sundae, supine, undies, unpaid, unsaid, upends, upsend, upside.

-5 letters: adieu, aides, anise, ansae, apian, apnea, aquae, aquas, aside, aspen, deans, dines, dunes, dupes, equid, equip, ideas, indue, nadas, naiad, napes, neaps, nides, nidus, nipas, nudes, nudie, padis, paean, pains, paisa, paise, panda, paned, panes, pause, peans, peins, pends, penis, pians, pinas, pined, pines, pique, pseud, punas, qaids, quads, quais, quasi, quean, quids, quins, quips, saned, sapid, sauna, sedan, sepia, siped, sneap, snide, snipe, spade, spaed, spean, spend, spied, spine, spued, squad, squid, unais, upend, usnea.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-i-n-p-q-s-u"
 

+1 letter: pasquinaded, pasquinades.

 

+4 letters: sesquipedalian.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Pasquinade


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 61 73 71 75 69 6E 61 64 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01100001 01110011 01110001 01110101 01101001 01101110 01100001 01100100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#97 &#115 &#113 &#117 &#105 &#110 &#97 &#100 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0061 0073 0071 0075 0069 006E 0061 0064 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

50678583877580677071

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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