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
There was the boat, the lascar resting motionless on his oar.
From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Herbert Strang
Each lascar has a smooth flat stick like a ruler, and as he deposits his mail-bag on a long bench over the hold, he gives up his stick to a man standing by.
From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Robert Cochrane
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 Herbert Strang
At last the lascar rose and floundered through the mud toward the village, but he was careful to leave an ally to watch the boats.
From Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II by Rudyard Kipling
