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 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 Strang, Herbert

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

From Where the Pavement Ends by Russell, John

In this complaisant state of mind he was addressed by the lascar at the helm.

From The Wireless Officer by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

The Malay and lascar crew divided their time between watch duty on board the Ithaca, policing the camp, and cultivating a little patch of clearing just south of their own campong.

From The Monster Men by Burroughs, Edgar Rice