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

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

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

It was necessary to put the lascar aside, gently and slowly, because it was necessary to save the boats, and, further, to demonstrate the extreme ease of the problem that looked so difficult.

From Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II by Kipling, Rudyard

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