calaboose

noun /ˌkæləˈbuːs/

1. A prison or jail/gaol.

   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?'

Where it comes from

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

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry calaboose (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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