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

There was the boat, the lascar resting motionless on his oar.

From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Strang, Herbert

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

Had Welsh never played the demon among the Bront�s, Emily Bront� had never placed on the canvas Heathcliff, “child neither of lascar nor gypsy, but a man’s shape animated by demon life—a ghoul, an afrit.”

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, October 1893 by Various

"Due east, mutli," ordered Mostyn, having signed to the lascar to come aft.

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