calaboose
Example Sentences
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead he was whisked off to the village calaboose at Guaranda.
From Time Magazine Archive
That evening there was another prisoner in the Golden Bar calaboose.
From The Rider of Golden Bar by White, William Patterson
Although the station agent did not see him get on board, when the train rolled up the track he occupied a box in front of the calaboose stove.
From Northwest! by Bindloss, Harold
