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

There was the boat, the lascar resting motionless on his oar.

From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Strang, Herbert

The khansaman's florid cheeks again put on a sickly hue, and when the seeming lascar had gone a few paces he called him back.

From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Strang, Herbert

On the fore-deck below the bridge, steeply roofed with the white slopes of the awnings, a young lascar seaman had clambered outside the rail.

From The End of the Tether by Conrad, Joseph

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