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calaboose

英 [,kælə'buːs] 美

n. 监狱，拘留所

英文词源

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).