calaboose
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Instead he was whisked off to the village calaboose at Guaranda.
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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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English-speaking settlers in the Spanish Southwest turned estampida into stampede, vamos into vamoose, and calabozo into calaboose.
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The papers reported that Tony and his monkey were shut up together in the park calaboose waiting for court to sit the next morning.
From The Girls of Central High on Lake Luna or, The Crew That Won by Gertrude W. Morrison
By the time you get there, she’ll be in the calaboose.
From The Mesa Trail by H. Bedford-Jones