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
It was necessary to put the lascar aside, gently and slowly, because it was necessary to save the boats, and, further, to demonstrate the extreme ease of the problem that looked so difficult.
From Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II by Rudyard Kipling
"Take the wheel," ordered Peter, using the term instead of tiller, since the lascar was well acquainted with the word "wheel".
From The Wireless Officer by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
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
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 Edgar Rice Burroughs
