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

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

It was not until he made his way to the bows and stood upon the mast thwart that he saw the craft which the lascar had indicated.

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

The lascar bowman resumed his oar, pulling the boat's head round.

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

The Malay and lascar crew divided their time between watch duty on board the Ithaca, policing the camp, and cultivating a little patch of clearing just south of their own campong.

From The Monster Men by Burroughs, Edgar Rice