Modifies a noun

• novel: Her sometime companion, a self-declared Vagabond, is also lovely - seemingly heavily based on the picaresque novels of the time.

• adventure: The picaresque adventures of his days in Palestine had given way to a serious spiritual and intellectual quest.

• tale: The actions of the characters show that the painting is a thematic representation of a literary motif from a picaresque tale.

• story: This is a classic picaresque story with a lot of potential for irony.

• life: Under numerous aliases, his picaresque life gathered strength.