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picaresque


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noun

Definition of PICARESQUE

: one that is picaresque

First Known Use of PICARESQUE

1895

Other Literature Terms

apophasis, bathos, bildungsroman, bowdlerize, caesura, coda, doggerel, euphemism, poesy, prosody

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