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
Serang, se-rang′, n. the skipper of a small East Indian vessel, the boatswain of a lascar crew.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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
The lascar bowman resumed his oar, pulling the boat's head round.
From The Wireless Officer by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
As he turned away from the bungalow his eye fell upon the trembling lascar who had accompanied him to the edge of the verandah.
From The Monster Men by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
