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Webster 1913 Edition


Cirque

Cirque

,
Noun.
[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.