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picara

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pi·ca·ra  (pkä-rä)
n. pl. pi·ca·ras (-räz, -räs)
1. A woman who is a rogue or adventurer.
2. The main character in a picaresque novel when that character is a woman or girl.

[Spanish pícara, feminine of pícaro, rogue; see picaro.]


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5) An early example in Spain is Francisco Lopez de Ubeda's La picara Justina (1605).
The excellent concluding piece on Defoe's Moll Flanders by Tina Kuhlisch pursues the tradition of rogue literature into the eighteenth-century picaresque, illustrating the English transformation of the Spanish picara from a figure rooted in a culture of blood, class, and honor to one based upon the values of self-improvement and middle-class capitalism.
The glamour of the Champions League was not in evidence inside the Picara Stadium.
 
 
 
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