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lascar
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Definition:a military serviceman from Southeast Asia or India. Outside of that region they were principally known as the sailors. They were maltreated in Britain and were discouraged from settling there via various laws. The discrimination these sailors faced is reflected in how they are portrayed in 19th century literature.
photo: By National Maritime Museum from Greenwich, United Kingdom - Three Lascars of the 'Viceroy of India', standing behind the wheel of one of the ship's tendersUploaded by NotFromUtrecht, No restrictions, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12723801
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At the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street.
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Regent Street is not unknown to Lascars and Malays; and at Bombay, in the Apollo Green, live Yankees have often scared the natives.
Herman Melville. Moby Dick
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"[...] who is this? Where did she pick up this companion? Oho! I declare he is that strange acquisition my late neighbour made, in his journey to Liverpool—a little Lascar, or an American or Spanish castaway.”
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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