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Meaning of PASQUIN

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
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  1. \Pas"quin\, n. [It. pasquino a mutilated statue at Rome,
    set up against the wall of the place 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
    satiric papers.]
    A lampooner; also, a lampoon. See {Pasquinade}.
          The Grecian wits, who satire first began, Were pleasant
          pasquins on the life of man.             --Dryden.
    
  2. \Pas"quin\, v. t.
    To lampoon; to satiraze. [R.]
          To see himself pasquined and affronted.  --Dryden.
    
 
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