calaboose
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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
These industrious scavengers are protected by law in the Peruvian cities, and hardly had Pate committed this outrage when he was seized by a couple of soldiers and carried to the calaboose.
From The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts by George Yellott
Although the station agent did not see him get on board, when the train rolled up the track he occupied a box in front of the calaboose stove.
From Northwest! by Harold Bindloss
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