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
"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
Thus Victoria had roamed aimlessly over the ship, visiting even the bows where, everlastingly, a lascar seemed to brood in fixed attitudes as a Budh dreaming of Nirvana.
From A Bed of Roses by George, Walter Lionel
A man who looked like a lascar stood upright in the stern.
From The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor by Rohmer, Sax
On the fore-deck below the bridge, steeply roofed with the white slopes of the awnings, a young lascar seaman had clambered outside the rail.
From The End of the Tether by Conrad, Joseph
