Lascar
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lascar
(plural lascars)- A sailor, army servant or artilleryman from India or Southeast Asia.
- 1919, William Somerset Maugham, ,A motley crowd saunters along the streets — Lascars off a P. and O., blond Northmen from a Swedish barque, Japanese from a man-of-war, English sailors, Spaniards, pleasant-looking fellows from a French cruiser, negroes off an American tramp.