calaboose
Example Sentences
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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.
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
Instead he was whisked off to the village calaboose at Guaranda.
From Time Magazine Archive
On reaching a town, I went as soon as possible to the "calaboose" to see who were held there.
From Notes of an Itinerant Policeman by Josiah Flynt
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 Harold Bindloss
