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

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

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

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

The plunge of the lead with the mournful, mechanical cry of the lascar came at longer and longer intervals; and the men on her bridge seemed to hold their breath.

From The End of the Tether by Conrad, Joseph

A minute or two later the lascar in the after part of the boat was unobtrusively examining the scrap of paper.

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