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lascar
/ˈlæskɚ/
noun 3
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3ADJ.
own, stateless
VERB + LASCAR
isn't
PREP.
across
Definitions
noun
1
A sailor from India or Southeast Asia, especially as serving on a European ship.
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.
...and what foreigner is it, exactly, that Pirate has in mind if it isn't that stateless lascar across his own mirror-glass, that poorest of exiles...
2
A tent-pitcher; also a type of artilleryman.
3
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genera Pantoporia and Lasippa.
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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 Frenc
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...and what foreigner is it, exactly, that Pirate has in mind if it isn't that stateless lascar across his own mirror-glass, that poorest of exiles...
Wiktionary03
As for the voyage itself, his account of Mauritius, where the ship stopped, saw the appearance of Muslim lascars.
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