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cul-de-sac
noun
[ ˈkʌldəˌsak ]
• a street or passage closed at one end.
Similar:
no through road,
blind alley
,
dead end
,
Origin:
mid 18th century (originally in anatomy): French, literally ‘bottom of a sack’.
