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

A man who looked like a lascar stood upright in the stern.

From The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor by Rohmer, Sax

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

In this complaisant state of mind he was addressed by the lascar at the helm.

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

Each lascar has a smooth flat stick like a ruler, and as he deposits his mail-bag on a long bench over the hold, he gives up his stick to a man standing by.

From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Cochrane, Robert