calaboose
Example Sentences
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Instead he was whisked off to the village calaboose at Guaranda.
From Time Magazine Archive
English-speaking settlers in the Spanish Southwest turned estampida into stampede, vamos into vamoose, and calabozo into calaboose.
From Time Magazine Archive
From the Indians came possum, persimmon, punk, skunk, squash, succotash; from the Dutch, cruller, sawbuck, scow, slaw, snoop, stoop, waffle; from the Spanish, cafeteria, calaboose, lariat, mustang; from the German, cranberry.
From Time Magazine Archive
If you git a friend in office, you can breathe easy when you have a little disagreement; if you don’t, why, you git ’lected–t’ the calaboose!
From Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher by Gates, Eleanor
That evening there was another prisoner in the Golden Bar calaboose.
From The Rider of Golden Bar by White, William Patterson
