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

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 Rohmer, Sax

From the lascar he had learned all that he ever knew of the motives of the Gujarati's action.

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

One was the lascar whom von Horn had sent down to the Ithaca the night before but who had reached the harbor after she sailed.

From The Monster Men by Burroughs, Edgar Rice