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Definition of calaboose in English: calaboosenoun ˌkaləˈbuːsˈkæləˌbus US informal A prison. Example sentencesExamples - Towns tolerate them and calabooses all over the world provide them with overnight shelter.
- It is likely that whoever inherits power after the leader's death - even if it is his brother, who does not suffer from his Napoleonic drive - will concentrate on maintaining control over the national calabooses and forget all about planetary adventures.
- The white man then forced Bailey to help lift the dead man into a calaboose full of black prisoners.
- The calaboose in Texas, has some interesting history hiding behind its brick walls.
- Among the finest remaining nineteenth-century calabooses in Texas, the jail was constructed with exterior walls of St. Louis pressed brick trimmed with stone on a cruciform plan.
- In the latest indignity, Hittner ordered Fastow to report to the downtown Federal Detention Center instead of the more upscale calaboose he'd requested.
- The calaboose inmate was not a citizen; he was a poor stranger, a harmless whiskey-sodden tramp.
- An hour or two afterward, the man was arrested and locked up in the calaboose by the marshal - large name for a constable, but that was his title.
- It would appear that although the above was accomplished, the state of the calaboose and the security it provided continued to deteriorate.
Origin Late 18th century: from black French calabouse, from Spanish calabozo 'dungeon'. Definition of calaboose in US English: calaboosenounˈkaləˌbo͞osˈkæləˌbus US informal A prison. Example sentencesExamples - The calaboose in Texas, has some interesting history hiding behind its brick walls.
- It would appear that although the above was accomplished, the state of the calaboose and the security it provided continued to deteriorate.
- An hour or two afterward, the man was arrested and locked up in the calaboose by the marshal - large name for a constable, but that was his title.
- The calaboose inmate was not a citizen; he was a poor stranger, a harmless whiskey-sodden tramp.
- In the latest indignity, Hittner ordered Fastow to report to the downtown Federal Detention Center instead of the more upscale calaboose he'd requested.
- Towns tolerate them and calabooses all over the world provide them with overnight shelter.
- Among the finest remaining nineteenth-century calabooses in Texas, the jail was constructed with exterior walls of St. Louis pressed brick trimmed with stone on a cruciform plan.
- The white man then forced Bailey to help lift the dead man into a calaboose full of black prisoners.
- It is likely that whoever inherits power after the leader's death - even if it is his brother, who does not suffer from his Napoleonic drive - will concentrate on maintaining control over the national calabooses and forget all about planetary adventures.
Origin Late 18th century: from Louisiana French calabouse, from Spanish calabozo ‘dungeon’. |