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Picaresque

Picaresque Meaning & Definition
Picaresque Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Picaresque?

[adj] involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction; "picaresque novels"; "waifs of the picaresque tradition"; "a picaresque hero"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Picaresque: dishonest | dishonorable

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Picaresque In Webster's Dictionary

\Pic`a*resque"\, a. [F., fr. Sp. picaro rogue.] Applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer.

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