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cirque

cir·que

UK/sɜːk/ US/sɝk/ uncommon dated literary

noun

1.

a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake

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Origin

Borrowed from French cirque (“circular arena; cirque”), from Latin circus (“circle, ring”), from Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos, “circle, ring; racecourse, circus”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend; to turn”). Doublet of circus.

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