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2 definitions found 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 1.6 [wn]: cirque n : a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake [syn: {corrie}, {cwm}]
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