ceroon

English

Etymology

From Spanish serón (“a kind of hamper or pannier”).

Noun

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.

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