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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[F., fr. Sp.

picaro

rogue.]

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

picaresque ‎(comparative more picaresque, superlative most picaresque)

Of or pertaining to rogues or adventurers
(literature) Characteristic of a genre of Spanish satiric novel dealing with the adventures of a roguish hero
- 2009, Neil McDonald, Quadrant, November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 103:
  Opening in France just before the Revolution and concluding just after the attack on the Tuileries, Sabatini's novel deftly combines historical romance, picaresque novel and revenge tragedy.

of or pertaining to rogues

picaresque ‎(plural picaresques)

a picaresque novel