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cirque

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something with a perfectly round circumference
  • the harvest moon was a glowing cirque in autumn sky

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The first known use of cirque was in 1601

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“Cirque.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cirque. Accessed 9 December 2019.

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