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

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

From Where the Pavement Ends by Russell, John

On the fore-deck below the bridge, steeply roofed with the white slopes of the awnings, a young lascar seaman had clambered outside the rail.

From The End of the Tether by Conrad, Joseph

The lead confirmed his words; the depth of water increased at every cast, and the soul of excitement departed suddenly from the lascar swung in the canvas belt over the Sofala's side.

From The End of the Tether by Conrad, Joseph

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)