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picaresque



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a. (形容詞 adjective)

          1.    以流浪漢和無賴為題材的

n. (名詞 noun)

          1.    流浪漢小說(或故事)
          2.    (有傳奇式冒險事跡的)流浪漢;無賴


The Columbia Guide to Standard American English

picaresque (adj., n.), picturesque (adj.)   
 
The adjective picaresque means "roguish, rascally, sharp-practicing, vagabondlike," and the noun is "a type of fiction with a picaresque hero, who is also called a picaro.”

Picturesque means "picturelike, quaint, worth looking at." 

See -ESQUE. 


A director known for picaresque narratives and grotesque imagery, Federico Fellini's Satyricon is easily his most lurid and bizarre work.　read more