calaboose
Example Sentences
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Instead he was whisked off to the village calaboose at Guaranda.
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
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
Even the prisoners in the calaboose had been released and provided with arms.
From Gentlemen Rovers by E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell
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
