Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, …
The paper was written in English, and it did indeed look like a lascar contract — a certificate of pay to last for the length of one voyage from Canton to London, to be specific.
— Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang (Page 55)
new vocabulary: lascar
a sailor from India or southeast Asia