|
English to English adjective
| 1 |
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: webster1913 adjective satellite
| 2 |
involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction | | Example: picaresque novels
waifs of the picaresque tradition
a picaresque hero
source: wordnet30
|