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cirque

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cirque /səːk/

▶noun

1 Geology a steep-sided hollow at the head of a valley or on a mountainside.

2 literary a ring, circlet, or circle.

– origin C17: from Fr., from L. circus.

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