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

According to custom, the lascar crew turned out gorgeous in crimson-and-gold scarfs, spotless white robes, and embroidered turbans, very different from their dingy working garb.

From The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation by Boldrewood, Rolf

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

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

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

From Where the Pavement Ends by Russell, John