picaresca

Updated: June 2, 2025

"On my word, I cannot say," answered Esdale, smiling; "we are all upon the adventure in India, more or less; but I do not see that the Begum Montreville is more so than the rest." "Why, that Amazonian dress and manner," said Hartley, "savour a little of the picaresca."

Sir Walter Scott - The Surgeon's Daughter