mazarinade
mazarinade noun: a scurrilous anti-governmental pamphlet published in mid-seventeenth-century France.
Noun
mazarinade (plural mazarinades)
- A scurrilous anti-governmental pamphlet published in mid-seventeenth-century France.
- More important for our purposes, the mazarinade confirms the tenacious image of the captal as an uncivilized tyrant whose visible presence at the heart of the city in Puy-Paulin was an offense to the city's dignity.1998, Alain Boureau, translated by Lydia G Cochrane, The Lord's First Night, Chicago, page 98
- In one of the most infamous of the scurrilous anti-governmental pamphlets known an mazarinades which appeared at this time, the Contrat de mariage, the constitution was figured not as a marriage between king and nation but as a union between Parlement and the people of Paris […]2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, pages 11–12
Forms of mazarinade
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Origin of mazarinade
From French mazarinade, from Jules Mazarin, the chief minister and a popular target of such pamphlets.
Questions about mazarinade
- What does mazarinade mean?
- Mazarinade means a scurrilous anti-governmental pamphlet published in mid-seventeenth-century France.
- What part of speech is mazarinade?
- Mazarinade is a noun.
- What is the plural of mazarinade?
- The plural of mazarinade is mazarinades.
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