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cirque

cirque


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n.  

  1. A steep bowl-shaped hollow occurring at the upper end of a mountain valley, especially one forming the head of a glacier or stream. Also called cwm.

  2. A ring; a circle.


[French, from Latin circus, circle; see circle.]
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