picaro
Americannoun
plural
picarosEtymology
Origin of picaro
First recorded in 1615–25, picaro is from the Spanish word pícaro rogue
Example Sentences
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Initially it seemed to be the first-person adventures of an intellectual picaro charting his disenchantment with Los Angeles, the Esalen Institute, M.I.T., think tanks and other outposts of American culture.
From Time Magazine Archive
His friend and foil is Rich Bone, a handsome and once successful corporate executive who sees life's flaws so clearly that he has retreated to become a sort of passive picaro.
From Time Magazine Archive
A few more years, and the fifteenth-century picaro, the common man, the trader, and the peasant were destined to emerge from the humble position to which the usages of chivalry had consigned them.
From William Hickling Prescott by Peck, Harry Thurston
With Panurge, we are distracted from the picaro by all the philosophic and fantastic digressions of an extensive tale in which he is not the principal hero.
From The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by Jusserand, J. J.
Most of them on leaving the Court uttered some invective against "the picaro who had sworn their lives away."
From The Pirates Own Book by Ellms, Charles
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