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calaboose (n.)
"prison," 1792, American English, from Louisiana French
calabouse
, from Spanish
calabozo
"dungeon," probably from Vulgar Latin
*calafodium
, from pre-Roman
*cala
"protected place, den" + Latin
fodere
"to dig" (see
fossil
).
