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

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 Cochrane, Robert

But how about this lascar of a captain that lets us put to sea unprovided?

From Where the Pavement Ends by Russell, John

The khansaman's florid cheeks again put on a sickly hue, and when the seeming lascar had gone a few paces he called him back.

From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Strang, Herbert

"Tuan!" the lascar at last murmured softly, meaning to let the white man know that he could not see to steer.

From The End of the Tether by Conrad, Joseph