Ceroma

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ceroma \Ce*ro"ma\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ? ointment for wrestlers, the
     place for wrestling, fr. khroy^n to wax over, fr. khro`s
     wax.]
     1. The unguent (a composition of oil and wax) with which
        wrestlers were anointed among the ancient Romans.
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     2. (Anc. Arch.) That part of the baths and gymnasia in which
        bathers and wrestlers anointed themselves.
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     3. (Zool.) The cere of birds.
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