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

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

"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

"Take the wheel," ordered Peter, using the term instead of tiller, since the lascar was well acquainted with the word "wheel".

From The Wireless Officer by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

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