About The Word Picaresque
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Picaresque
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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 Related Terms | Find terms related to Picaresque: See Also | 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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