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

Thus Victoria had roamed aimlessly over the ship, visiting even the bows where, everlastingly, a lascar seemed to brood in fixed attitudes as a Budh dreaming of Nirvana.

From A Bed of Roses by George, Walter Lionel

Serang, se-rang′, n. the skipper of a small East Indian vessel, the boatswain of a lascar crew.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

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 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