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 fourth, who was steering, was rather lighter in hue, as well as more alert and energetic in mien: a lascar, as Hossain explained in answer to inquiries along the river.
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
As he turned away from the bungalow his eye fell upon the trembling lascar who had accompanied him to the edge of the verandah.
From The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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
