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
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oh, well," said Deering, "since I want to get on board the calaboose, perhaps her stopping in the dark is not a drawback.
From Northwest! by Harold Bindloss
We had been "given away" for the reward, three pounds sterling—about fifteen dollars each—being the amount for apprehension of deserters from Her Majesty's service, and off to the calaboose we were marched.
From The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document by Anonymous
