Definition of picaresque

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pic·a·resque

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ADJECTIVE:

Of or involving clever rogues or adventurers.
Of or relating to a genre of usually satiric prose fiction originating in Spain and depicting in realistic, often humorous detail the adventures of a roguish hero of low social degree living by his or her wits in a corrupt society.

NOUN:

One that is picaresque.

ETYMOLOGY:
French, from Spanish picaresco, from pícaro, picaro ; see picaro

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