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Calaboose

//ˌkæləˈbuːs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A prison or jail/gaol. Australia, US, dialectal

    "The slaughter-house is gone from the mouth of Bear Creek and so is the small jail (or 'calaboose') which once stood in its neighborhood. A citizen asked, 'Do you remember when Jimmy Finn, the town drunkard, was burned to death in the calaboose?'"

Etymology

From Cajun French calabousse, from Spanish calabozo. Doublet of calabozo.

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