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

The lascar bowman resumed his oar, pulling the boat's head round.

From The Wireless Officer by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

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

The enclosure at the far end of the palisade was for the Malay and lascar crew and there also were quarters for Bududreen and the Malay second mate.

From The Monster Men by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

It was not until he made his way to the bows and stood upon the mast thwart that he saw the craft which the lascar had indicated.

From The Wireless Officer by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)