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
The lascar bowman resumed his oar, pulling the boat's head round.
From The Wireless Officer by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
There was the boat, the lascar resting motionless on his oar.
From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Strang, Herbert
In a few minutes he left this in a skiff accompanied only by Fuzl Khan and a lascar.
From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Strang, Herbert
When it was finished the lascar went over it line by line, comparing it with the paper at his left hand.
From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Strang, Herbert
