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

But it’s the only stone calaboose on the ranch.

From The Missourian by Lyle, Eugene P. (Eugene Percy)

That evening there was another prisoner in the Golden Bar calaboose.

From The Rider of Golden Bar by White, William Patterson