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

One was the lascar whom von Horn had sent down to the Ithaca the night before but who had reached the harbor after she sailed.

From The Monster Men by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

Then, having trimmed sheets, Mostyn took the tiller and ordered the lascar into the bows.

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

The enclosure at the far end of the palisade was for the Malay and lascar crew and there also were quarters for Bududreen and the Malay second mate.

From The Monster Men by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

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