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The answer CIRQUE has 6 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of cirque in various dictionaries:
noun - a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain
A steep hollow, often containing a small lake, occurring at the upper end of a mountain valley.
noun - a deep, steep-walled basin on a mountain
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| __ du Soleil |
| Hollow church suppressing 'Irish Question' |
| Steep-sided hollow on a mountainside |
| Semicircular basin with steep sides |
| Crescent-shaped basin with steep sides |
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| a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain may contain a lake |
| a hollow area almost surrounded by steep slopes at the top of a glaciated valley: |
| A steep bowl-shaped hollow occurring at the upper end of a mountain valley, especially one forming the head of a glacier or stream. Also called cwm. |
| A ring a circle. |
| A half-open steep-sided hollow at the head of a valley or on a mountainside, formed by glacial erosion. |
| A ring, circlet, or circle. |
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A cirque (French, from the Latin word circus) is an amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion. Alternative names for this landform are corrie (from Scottish Gaelic coire meaning a pot or cauldron) and cwm (Welsh for "valley", pronounced /km/ coom). A cirque may also be a similarly shaped landform arising from fluvial erosion. * The concave shape of a glacial cirque is open on the downhill side, while the cupped section is generally steep. Cliff-like slopes, down which ice and glaciated debris combine and converge, form the three or more higher sides. The floor of the cirque ends up bowl-shaped as it is the complex convergence zone of combining ice flows from multiple directions and their accompanying rock burdens: hence it experiences somewhat greater erosion forces, and is most often overdeepened below the level of the cirque's low-side outlet (stage) and its down slope (backstage) valley. If the cirque is subject to seasonal melting, the floor of the cirque most often forms a |