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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They begin to rattle the keys of the calaboose the minute I get off’n the train.”
From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day
That evening there was another prisoner in the Golden Bar calaboose.
From The Rider of Golden Bar by William Patterson White