Pic`a*resque" (?), a. [F., fr. Sp. picaro rogue.] Applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer.

• Of or pertaining to rogues or adventurers
  
• Characteristic of a genre of Spanish satiric novel dealing with the adventures of a roguish hero