lascar

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While writing Sea of Poppies, he scoured old dictionaries and almanacs and filled the novel with dizzying dialogues incorporating bastardized Hindustani and lascar words that he claims entered common English parlance in the 19th century.

From Time Magazine Archive

Save for his ardent eyes and the handsome fanatical face of the man, he might have passed for a lascar.

From The Golden Scorpion by Rohmer, Sax

Each lascar has a smooth flat stick like a ruler, and as he deposits his mail-bag on a long bench over the hold, he gives up his stick to a man standing by.

From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Cochrane, Robert

From the lascar he had learned all that he ever knew of the motives of the Gujarati's action.

From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Strang, Herbert

One was the lascar whom von Horn had sent down to the Ithaca the night before but who had reached the harbor after she sailed.

From The Monster Men by Burroughs, Edgar Rice