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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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