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
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.
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
10 June 2025
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The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
