calaboose

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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

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

The charming French Resident, M. Delaruelle, carried me one day to the calaboose on an official visit.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Even the prisoners in the calaboose had been released and provided with arms.

From Gentlemen Rovers by Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander)