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
According to custom, the lascar crew turned out gorgeous in crimson-and-gold scarfs, spotless white robes, and embroidered turbans, very different from their dingy working garb.
From The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation by Rolf Boldrewood
It was not until he made his way to the bows and stood upon the mast thwart that he saw the craft which the lascar had indicated.
From The Wireless Officer by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
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 Walter Lionel George
It was necessary to put the lascar aside, gently and slowly, because it was necessary to save the boats, and, further, to demonstrate the extreme ease of the problem that looked so difficult.
From Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II by Rudyard Kipling
