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

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

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 Yellott, George

But this did no good, for he conjured up the dreadful picture of his father in the stifling calaboose on Shell Island.

From Bill Bolton?Flying Midshipman by Sainsbury, Noel