Dictionary entry

Pasquin

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.