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
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Instead he was whisked off to the village calaboose at Guaranda.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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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By the time you get there, she’ll be in the calaboose.
From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.
That evening there was another prisoner in the Golden Bar calaboose.
From The Rider of Golden Bar by White, William Patterson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.