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
In this complaisant state of mind he was addressed by the lascar at the helm.
From The Wireless Officer by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
In a few minutes he left this in a skiff accompanied only by Fuzl Khan and a lascar.
From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Herbert Strang
The lead confirmed his words; the depth of water increased at every cast, and the soul of excitement departed suddenly from the lascar swung in the canvas belt over the Sofala's side.
From The End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad
When it was finished the lascar went over it line by line, comparing it with the paper at his left hand.
From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Herbert Strang
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