lascar
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
But how about this lascar of a captain that lets us put to sea unprovided?
From Where the Pavement Ends by John Russell
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
