picaresque

Definition of Picaresque in English :

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Adjective

1. picaresque

involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction

Example Sentences:
'picaresque novels'
'waifs of the picaresque tradition'
'a picaresque hero'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Picaresque

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adjective

1.

of or relating to a type of fiction in which the hero, a rogue, goes through a series of episodic adventures. It originated in Spain in the 16th century

2.

of or involving rogues or picaroons

Picaresque

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adjective

1.

of, like, or having to do with sharp-witted vagabonds or rogues

2.

designating or characteristic of a kind of fiction that originated in Spain and deals episodically with the adventures of a hero who is or resembles such a vagabond or rogue

Picaresque

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adj.

1. Of or involving clever rogues or adventurers.

2. Of or relating to a genre of usually satiric prose fiction originating in Spain and depicting in realistic, often humorous detail the adventures of a roguish hero of low social degree living by his or her wits in a corrupt society.

n.

One that is picaresque.

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