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Picaresque
Posted on 8/10/2008 8:41:25 PM by Cas
pic·a·resque adj.
1. Of or involving clever rogues or adventurers.
2. Of or relating to a genre of usually satiric prose fiction originating in Spain and depicting in realistic, often humorous detail the adventures of a roguish hero of low social degree living by his or her wits in a corrupt society.
n. One that is picaresque.
[French, from Spanish picaresco.]