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

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)

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

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

"I saved this pink muslin—it's real Indian, lascar lawn, fine as cobweb—for you, Alice," she said.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 by Various