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Picaresque Moderate

Origin: French suffix -esque

Picaresque has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Noun
1

A picaresque novel.

Adjective
1

involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction

"picaresque novels"

"waifs of the picaresque tradition"

"a picaresque hero"

2

Of or pertaining to adventurers or rogues.

Example Sentences
"picaresque novels" adjective
"waifs of the picaresque tradition" adjective
"a picaresque hero" adjective
See Also
adventure novel rogue satiric smollettian picaresquely adventurer spanish
Related Terms
Rhyming Words
que pique zoque toque esque deque ceque tuque duque nuque roque usque coque fique calque cirque parque jacque bosque sacque
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