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.
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Instead he was whisked off to the village calaboose at Guaranda.
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English-speaking settlers in the Spanish Southwest turned estampida into stampede, vamos into vamoose, and calabozo into calaboose.
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Pierre Lafitte was arrested in his blacksmith-shop and confined without bail in the calaboose.
From Gentlemen Rovers by Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander)
But it’s the only stone calaboose on the ranch.
From The Missourian by Lyle, Eugene P. (Eugene Percy)