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- noun Plural form of
picaro .
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So Marakesh in Morocco and some small towns in Jordan seemed to me more useful as a way of imagining how parts of Paris might have been then: food being cooked in the streets, smoke, street sellers, people selling you things everywhere, the smells of coffee, lemons, fish, and the people: picaros, street entertainers, prostitutes.
A Conversation with Rebecca Stott about The Coral Thief 2010
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Sly as a fox, or, picaros avant la lettre « Jahsonic
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Sly as a fox, or, picaros avant la lettre « Jahsonic
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Tintin et les picaros /Tournai : Casterman, c1976.
New Library Comics: Week of May 21, 2007 David S. Carter 2007
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Tintin et les picaros /Tournai : Casterman, c1976.
Archive 2007-06-01 David S. Carter 2007
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Tintin and the picaros /Boston : Little, Brown and Co., c1978.
New Library Comics: Week of April 10, 2006 David S. Carter 2006
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Tintin and the picaros /Boston : Little, Brown and Co., c1978.
Archive 2006-04-01 David S. Carter 2006
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The characters of the scandal novels were still princes and courtiers, but their exploits were more licentious than the lowest pothouse amours of picaros and their doxies.
The Life and Romances of Mrs Eliza Haywood Whicher, George Frisbie 1915
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Vaya con los picaros de Zincali, buenas pesetas han cobrado -- siempre he tenido á los
George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Clement King Shorter 1891
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"Then it must have proceeded from one of the _picaros_ behind the rock.
The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Mayne Reid 1850
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