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

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

Then, having trimmed sheets, Mostyn took the tiller and ordered the lascar into the bows.

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

Save for his ardent eyes and the handsome fanatical face of the man, he might have passed for a lascar.

From The Golden Scorpion by Rohmer, Sax

The lascar bowman resumed his oar, pulling the boat's head round.

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