D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Picaresque

/pĭkˌ-ər-ĕsk'/ · Pic·a·resque · IPA /pɪkəˈɹɛsk/
01 a. Applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer.
  1. 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.