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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
picaresque
    adj 1: involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a
           type of fiction; "picaresque novels"; "waifs of the
           picaresque tradition"; "a picaresque hero"
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Picaresque \Pic`a*resque"\, a. [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.
   [1913 Webster]
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