Picaresque

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  picaresque
       adj : involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a
             type of fiction; "picaresque novels"; "waifs of the
             picaresque tradition"; "a picaresque hero"