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

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 Kipling, Rudyard

But a yelling spirit of excitement, like some frantic soul wandering unsuspected in the vast stillness of the coast, had seized upon the body of the lascar at the lead.

From The End of the Tether by Conrad, Joseph

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 Strang, Herbert

It was necessary to put the lascar aside, gently and slowly, because it was necessary to save the boats, and, further, to demonstrate the extreme ease of the problem that looked so difficult.

From Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II by Kipling, Rudyard