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

A minute or two later the lascar in the after part of the boat was unobtrusively examining the scrap of paper.

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

Only the lascar and Hossain were left in the boat.

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

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

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