PICARESQUE

picaresque

(adjective) involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction; “picaresque novels”; “waifs of the picaresque tradition”; “a picaresque hero”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Adjective

picaresque (comparative more picaresque, superlative most picaresque)

Of or pertaining to adventurers or rogues.

Synonym: roguish

(literature) Characteristic of a genre of Spanish satiric novel dealing with the adventures of a roguish hero.

Noun

picaresque (plural picaresques)

(literature) A picaresque novel.

Source: Wiktionary

Pic`a*resque", a. Etym: [F., fr. Sp. picaro rogue.]

Definition: Applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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