Definition of Pasqoin
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.
Pas"quin, v. t. To lampoon; to
satiraze. [R.]
To see himself pasquined and
affronted. Dryden.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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