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
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
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
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
