calaboose

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The city calaboose was an institution apart from the county jail.

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  • Many negroes were dragged out of their cabins or yards without knowing the cause, stripped, tied to the whipping-post or taken to the calaboose, and given as many lashes as could be endured. —  A Woman's Life-Work
  • I visited the calaboose, which had two apartments. —  A Woman's Life-Work
  • The floor of this calaboose was of hard wood, but it was so thoroughly stained with human gore that the grain of the wood could not be distinguished. —  A Woman's Life-Work
  • Monk had used them--and landed in the guardhouse Shortly after his release from the military calaboose, the dapper Brigadier General Theodore Marley Brooks had been hailed upon a charge of stealing hams. —  009 - The Czar of Fear
  • They conducted us to what they had termed “the calaboose,” a big, ramshackle, one-roomed barn-like structure. —  Tramping on Life
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Louisiana French calabouse, from Spanish calabozo, dungeon.

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  1. from Spanish calabozo = Portuguese calabouço, a dungeon, prob. from Arabic qal'a, a castle, + būs, hidden.
 

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/kæləˈbus/
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