mazarinade

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English

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Etymology

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From French mazarinade, from Jules Mazarin, the chief minister and a popular target of such pamphlets.

Noun

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mazarinade (plural mazarinades)

  1. (historical) A scurrilous anti-governmental pamphlet published in mid-seventeenth-century France.
    • 1998, Alain Boureau, translated by Lydia G Cochrane, The Lord's First Night, Chicago, page 98:
      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.
    • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, pages 11–12:
      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, Todd P. Olson, Poussin and France, page 83:
      One mazarinade argued incessantly that Mazarin had interfered with France's economy.

French

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Etymology

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From Mazarin +‎ -ade.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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mazarinade f (plural mazarinades)

  1. (historical) mazarinade

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