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

As he turned away from the bungalow his eye fell upon the trembling lascar who had accompanied him to the edge of the verandah.

From The Monster Men by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

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

"Take the wheel," ordered Peter, using the term instead of tiller, since the lascar was well acquainted with the word "wheel".

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