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picaresque

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective picaresque has 1 sense

picaresque(s = adj.all) Array - involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction; "picaresque novels"; "waifs of the picaresque tradition"; "a picaresque hero"

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CIDE DICTIONARY

picaresque, 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. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

picaresque, adj. (of a style of fiction) dealing with the episodic adventures of rogues etc.

Etymology

F f. Sp. picaresco f. p{iacute}caro rogue

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