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
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The enclosure at the far end of the palisade was for the Malay and lascar crew and there also were quarters for Bududreen and the Malay second mate.
From The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The fourth, who was steering, was rather lighter in hue, as well as more alert and energetic in mien: a lascar, as Hossain explained in answer to inquiries along the river.
From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Herbert Strang
Each lascar has a smooth flat stick like a ruler, and as he deposits his mail-bag on a long bench over the hold, he gives up his stick to a man standing by.
From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Robert Cochrane
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 Herbert Strang