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

One was the lascar whom von Horn had sent down to the Ithaca the night before but who had reached the harbor after she sailed.

From The Monster Men by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

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

Shortly after von Horn became separated from Virginia he collided with the fleeing lascar who had escaped the parangs of Muda Saffir's head hunters at the same time as had Bududreen.

From The Monster Men by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

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

From Where the Pavement Ends by Russell, John