lascar
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English [edit]
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Noun [edit]
lascar (plural lascars)
- A sailor, army servant or artilleryman from India or Southeast Asia.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 47
- 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.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 47
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Portuguese [edit]
Verb [edit]
lascar (first-person singular present indicative lasco, past participle lascado)
- To chip
Conjugation [edit]
Conjugation of the Portuguese -ar verb lascar
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