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Date: 1800-1900
Language: Spanish
Origin: picaresco, from pícaro 'bad man'

picaresque

 adjective
     
Related topics: Literature
pic‧a‧resque
AL a picaresque story tells the amusing and unlikely adventures of a character who travels to a lot of different places
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