Etymology

mazarinade

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Today it means: A scurrilous anti-governmental pamphlet published in mid-seventeenth-century France. Full definition →

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

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