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Noun
perillán m (plural perillanes)
- (dated) cunning, astute
1926, Roberto Arlt, “Los ladrones”, in El juguete rabioso:Dicha literatura, que yo devoraba en las "entregas" numerosas, era la historia de José María, el Rayo de Andalucía, o las aventuras de don Jaime el Barbudo y otros perillanes más o menos auténticos y pintorescos en los cromos que los representaban de esta forma- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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