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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