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Picaresque
Webster's Dictionary
(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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Picaresque'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/p/picaresque.html. 1828.