Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cirque"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cirque \Cirque\, n. [F., fr. L. circus.]
1. A circle; a circus; a circular erection or arrangement of
objects.
A dismal cirque Of Druid stones upon a forlorn moor.
--Keats.
2. A kind of circular valley in the side of a mountain,
walled around by precipices of great height.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
cirque
n : a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain
a lake [syn: {corrie}, {cwm}]
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