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 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 Edgar Rice Burroughs
Shortly after von Horn became separated from Virginia he collided with the fleeing lascar who had escaped the parangs of Muda Saffir's head hunters at the same time as had Bududreen.
From The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs
"I saved this pink muslin—it's real Indian, lascar lawn, fine as cobweb—for you, Alice," she said.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 by Various
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 Joseph Conrad
