calaboose
Example Sentences
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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
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
They begin to rattle the keys of the calaboose the minute I get off’n the train.”
From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman
On reaching a town, I went as soon as possible to the "calaboose" to see who were held there.
From Notes of an Itinerant Policeman by Flynt, Josiah
