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 lead confirmed his words; the depth of water increased at every cast, and the soul of excitement departed suddenly from the lascar swung in the canvas belt over the Sofala's side.
From The End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad
The khansaman's florid cheeks again put on a sickly hue, and when the seeming lascar had gone a few paces he called him back.
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
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 Sax Rohmer
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