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  • noun Plural form of serang.

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Examples

  • Chinese mess "boys," Tagalog _cargadores_, Lascar _serangs_, stalwart Sikh watchmen from the hemp and sugar _godowns_, squat

    Isle o' Dreams Frederick Ferdinand Moore 1930

  • This infernal publicity is too shocking: there he sits while all these confounded natives, serangs, lascars, quartermasters, are giving evidence that's enough to burn a man to ashes with shame.

    Lord Jim 1899

  • This infernal publicity is too shocking: there he sits while all these confounded natives, serangs, lascars, quartermasters, are giving evidence that's enough to burn a man to ashes with shame.

    Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 1890

  • This infernal publicity is too shocking: there he sits while all these confounded natives, serangs, lascars, quartermasters, are giving evidence that’s enough to burn a man to ashes with shame.

    Lord Jim 1900

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