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