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/ˈlæskɚ/ · noun
(now chiefly historical) 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...
As for the voyage itself, his account of Mauritius, where the ship stopped, saw the appearance of Muslim lascars.
Use lascar when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Lascar means (now chiefly historical) A sailor from India or Southeast Asia, especially as serving on a European ship..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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