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- noun Plural form of
calaboose .
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Examples
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And in the worst of it visions continued to flash and sparkle in his brain – long lines of railroad track that simmered across the desert; rurales and American constables, prisons and calabooses; tramps at water tanks – all the squalid and painful panorama of his odyssey after Rio Blanca and the strike.
The Mexican 2010
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And in the worst of it visions continued to flash and sparkle in his brain -- long lines of railroad track that simmered across the desert; rurales and American constables, prisons and calabooses; tramps at water tanks -- all the squalid and painful panorama of his odyssey after Rio Blanca and the strike.
THE MEXICAN 1993
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And in the worst of it visions continued to flash and sparkle in his brain -- long lines of railroad track that simmered across the desert; rurales and American constables, prisons and calabooses; tramps at water tanks -- all the squalid and painful panorama of his odyssey after Rio Blanca and the strike.
The Mexican 1913
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