calaboose

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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

Instead he was whisked off to the village calaboose at Guaranda.

From Time Magazine Archive

We’ll corral him at Stockchute in that little log calaboose.

From Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation by Brehm, George

When Lem Lutts had disappeared so inexplicably from the mountains, Hatfield had, after a hasty search, hied himself out and visited every calaboose and county jail in the surrounding country.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett