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
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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 Strang, Herbert
Shortly after von Horn became separated from Virginia he collided with the fleeing lascar who had escaped the parangs of Muda Saffir's head hunters at the same time as had Bududreen.
From The Monster Men by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Had Welsh never played the demon among the Bront�s, Emily Bront� had never placed on the canvas Heathcliff, “child neither of lascar nor gypsy, but a man’s shape animated by demon life—a ghoul, an afrit.”
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, October 1893 by Various
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.