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






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Picaresque" Quotes from Famous Books



... influences could come, and it might really have been starved to death, or have lost the power of recovery and rebound, if my captor, by some freak not yet perfectly accounted for, had not gratuitously opened a little window in it and added a powerful telescope. The daring chapters of Michael Scott's picaresque romance of the tropics were that telescope and ...
— Father and Son • Edmund Gosse



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