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

Only the lascar and Hossain were left in the boat.

From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Strang, Herbert

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 Burroughs, Edgar Rice

"Tuan!" the lascar at last murmured softly, meaning to let the white man know that he could not see to steer.

From The End of the Tether by Conrad, Joseph

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