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

"Tuan!" the lascar at last murmured softly, meaning to let the white man know that he could not see to steer.

From The End of the Tether by Conrad, Joseph

"I saved this pink muslin—it's real Indian, lascar lawn, fine as cobweb—for you, Alice," she said.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 by Various

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

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