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
Then, having trimmed sheets, Mostyn took the tiller and ordered the lascar into the bows.
From The Wireless Officer by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
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 Sax Rohmer
Thus Victoria had roamed aimlessly over the ship, visiting even the bows where, everlastingly, a lascar seemed to brood in fixed attitudes as a Budh dreaming of Nirvana.
From A Bed of Roses by Walter Lionel George
Only the lascar and Hossain were left in the boat.
From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Herbert Strang
