'Picaresque' definitions:
Definition of 'picaresque'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction; "picaresque novels"; "waifs of the picaresque tradition"; "a picaresque hero"
Definition of 'Picaresque'
From: 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]