Crossword-Solution: PICARESQUE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Picaresque | 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. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “PICARESQUE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Adjective for "Tom Jones" | 1 answer |
| Like "Don Quixote de la Mancha" | 1 answer |
| Like a daring rascal | 1 answer |
| Like a novel with a roguish, adventuring hero | 1 answer |
| Style of fiction | 1 answer |
| roguish adventure | 1 answer |
| Like "Don Quixote" | 3 answers |
| beloved Don Quixote | 10 answers |
| Roguish | 26 answers |
| ADVENTURE story | 39 answers |
| Adventurer | 62 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
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Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with PICARESQUE (5)
Roy Bean (1830-1903), justice of peace at Langtry, Texas, advertised himself as "Law West of the Pecos." He was more picaresque than picturesque; folk imagination gave him notoriety.
This place is famous in the ancient novels of Spain, of that class called Picaresque, or those devoted to the adventures of notorious scoundrels, the father of which, as also of all others of the same kind, in whatever language, is Lazarillo de Tormes.
The daring chapters of Michael Scott's picaresque romance of the tropics were that telescope and that window.
The first draft of “The Island Pharisees” was buried in a drawer; when retrieved the other day, after nineteen years, it disclosed a picaresque string of anecdotes told by Ferrand in the first person.
Consider the novel--that most recent form of Art! Did not the age which followed Fielding lament the treachery of authors to the Picaresque tradition, complaining that they were not as Fielding and Smollett were? Be sure they did.
Quotes with PICARESQUE (1)
One of my favourite kinds of movie is the American picaresque, in which the characters make their way across the country, learning about life against the gorgeous backdrops of that vast land.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1969–2019).