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

"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

As he turned away from the bungalow his eye fell upon the trembling lascar who had accompanied him to the edge of the verandah.

From The Monster Men by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

A man who looked like a lascar stood upright in the stern.

From The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor by Rohmer, Sax

Save for his ardent eyes and the handsome fanatical face of the man, he might have passed for a lascar.

From The Golden Scorpion by Rohmer, Sax