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picaresque |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Picaresque \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: picaresque adj : 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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