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Definition of Picaresques
1. picaresque [n] - See also: picaresque
Lexicographical Neighbors of Picaresques
Literary usage of Picaresques
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Conférences de L'Odéon: Les époques Du Théatre Français (1636-1850) by Ferdinand Brunetière (1892)
"... quelque chose de dur; et c'est ce qui explique assez bien que ni le Cid de
Guillen de Castro, ni les romans picaresques n'aient fait, — je dis en Europe ..."
2. Beaumarchais and His Times: Sketches of French Society in the Eighteenth by Henry Sutherland Edwards, Louis de Lom̂aenie, de Louis Léonard Loménie (1856)
"... called " picaresques," the heroes of which are adventurers. In vain have I
sought amongst Beaumarchais' papers for some verification of this etymology. ..."
3. French Secondary Schools: An Account of the Origin, Development and Present by Frederic Ernest Farrington (1910)
"Selections from the " picaresques," and the contemporary novelists. Such is the
list of authors from which the modern language texts are to be chosen for ..."
4. Conférences de L'Odéon: Les époques Du Théatre Français (1636-1850) by Ferdinand Brunetière (1892)
"... quelque chose de dur; et c'est ce qui explique assez bien que ni le Cid de
Guillen de Castro, ni les romans picaresques n'aient fait, — je dis en Europe ..."
5. Beaumarchais and His Times: Sketches of French Society in the Eighteenth by Henry Sutherland Edwards, Louis de Lom̂aenie, de Louis Léonard Loménie (1856)
"... called " picaresques," the heroes of which are adventurers. In vain have I
sought amongst Beaumarchais' papers for some verification of this etymology. ..."
6. French Secondary Schools: An Account of the Origin, Development and Present by Frederic Ernest Farrington (1910)
"Selections from the " picaresques," and the contemporary novelists. Such is the
list of authors from which the modern language texts are to be chosen for ..."
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