Pasquin

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pasquin \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}.


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           The Grecian wits, who satire first began,
           Were pleasant pasquins on the life of man. --Dryden.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pasquin \Pas"quin\, v. t.
     To lampoon; to satiraze. [R.]
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           To see himself pasquined and affronted.  --Dryden.
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