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
The lead confirmed his words; the depth of water increased at every cast, and the soul of excitement departed suddenly from the lascar swung in the canvas belt over the Sofala's side.
From The End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad
At last the lascar rose and floundered through the mud toward the village, but he was careful to leave an ally to watch the boats.
From Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II by Rudyard Kipling
In a few minutes he left this in a skiff accompanied only by Fuzl Khan and a lascar.
From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Herbert Strang
"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
