lascar
Example Sentences
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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
According to custom, the lascar crew turned out gorgeous in crimson-and-gold scarfs, spotless white robes, and embroidered turbans, very different from their dingy working garb.
From The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation by Boldrewood, Rolf
The khansaman's florid cheeks again put on a sickly hue, and when the seeming lascar had gone a few paces he called him back.
From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Strang, Herbert
But a yelling spirit of excitement, like some frantic soul wandering unsuspected in the vast stillness of the coast, had seized upon the body of the lascar at the lead.
From The End of the Tether by Conrad, Joseph
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
