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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