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(), 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. Pas"quin v. t.To lampoon; to satiraze. [R.] To see himself pasquined and affronted. Dryden. スポンサード リンク
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