cajón

noun

ca·​jón

kəˈhōn

plural cajones

-ō(ˌ)nās,

-ōnēz

1

Southwest : a narrow gorge with vertical sides : box canyon

2

[Spanish] : a Spanish and Spanish-American method of construction in which walls are made of mud rammed into a narrow boxlike frame and allowed to harden

Word History

Etymology

American Spanish, from Spanish, big box, augmentative of caja box, from Latin capsa

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