English Explanatory Dictionary

mazarinade

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A scurrilous anti-governmental pamphlet published in mid-seventeenth-century France.

Word forms

mazarinade mazarinades

Etymology

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

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