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cirque
noun
[ səːk ]
• 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.
Origin:
late 17th century (in cirque (sense 2)): from French, from Latin circus .