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   cirque

   /səːk/

   noun

   • 1. a half-open steep-sided hollow at the head of a valley or on a mountainside, formed by glacial erosion.
   • 2. a ring, circlet, or circle. literary

   Word Origin late 17th century (in cirque (sense 2)): from French, from Latin circus.

   Scrabble Points: 17

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