picaresque : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: picaresque	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for picaresque
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.