Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mazarinade

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mazari-nade
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Example Sentences

"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."
"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 […]"
"One mazarinade argued incessantly that Mazarin had interfered with France's economy."

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

mazarinades (plural)

Questions

What does mazarinade mean?: A scurrilous anti-governmental pamphlet published in mid-seventeenth-century France.
Where does mazarinade come from?: From French mazarinade, from Jules Mazarin, the chief minister and a popular target of such pamphlets.

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