ceroonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

ceroon (plural ceroons)

1. (archaic) A bale or package, covered or bound with hide, formerly used in Central America.

   a ceroon of indigo, cochineal, etc.

   • c. 1850, Theodore Winthrop, Isthmiana:

     Troops of pack animals constantly passed us, laden with enormous hide ceroons, filled with grain. The scene was pastoral.

   • 1880 August 17, Henry Solomon Wellcome, “The Cinchona-Forests of South America”, in Popular Science Monthly:

     The final sorting and classifying of bark are done at the main store-houses at the coast, where it is closely packed in ceroons of previously moistened cowhides (hair-side out), or in bales of heavy sacking.

参照

• “ceroon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• corneo-, Cooner, corone, Conroe