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Definition of Calabooses
1. calaboose [n] - See also: calaboose
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calabooses
Literary usage of Calabooses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southwestern Historical Quarterly by Texas State Historical Association, Eugene Campbell Barker, Herbert Eugene Bolton, University of Texas at Austin Center for Studies in Texas History (1911)
"To return however to the criminal—we had no jails or calabooses as in the interior,
and it was difficult to know what disposition to make of him. ..."
2. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.), National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, National Conference of Social Work (U.S.) (1881)
"If, on the other hand, we turn our attention to the county jails, and especially
to the town and city prisons, commonly called •'calabooses" or "lock-ups," ..."
3. The Great Modern American Stories: An Anthology by William Dean Howells (1920)
"I used to nod at the low whitewashed "calabooses" fairly steaming in the sun,
wherein Herman Melville got some chapters of Omoo ..."
4. Proceedings of the ... Annual Congress of Correction of the American by American Correctional Association (1899)
"Of course there are still the jails and the station houses and the calabooses
and a great many things that relate more or less to the prison question that ..."
5. History of California by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1886)
"... and calabooses, of adobe and stones. 5, 6. Warehouses for food and clothing,
of stones and mud. The other structures are the soldiers' ..."
6. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1901)
"... between the right of a city to establish and maintain a smallpox hospital,
and to erect and use jails, fire-engine houses, calabooses, and the like. ..."
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