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cirque in British English
(sɜːk)
noun
1. Also called: corrie, cwm
a semicircular or crescent-shaped basin with steep sides and a gently sloping floor formed in mountainous regions by the erosive action of a glacier
2. archaeology an obsolete term for circle (sense 11)
3. poetic
a circle, circlet, or ring
Word origin
C17: from French, from Latin circus ring, circle, circuscirque in American English
(sɜrk)
noun
1.
a circular space or arrangement
2. OLD-FASHIONED, Poetic
a circle; ring
3. Archaic
a circus
4. Geology
a steep, hollow excavation high on a mountainside, made by glacial erosion; natural amphitheater
Word origin
Fr < L circus: see circusImage ofcirque
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