1. A cirque: a deep steep-walled basin high on a mountain usually shaped like half a bowl and often containing a small lake, caused especially by glacial erosion, and usually forming the blunt head of a valley.
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"The hikers stopped in a quiet cwm to eat lunch and escape the wind."
"From above, the cwm looked like a natural bowl carved into the mountainside."
"The guide pointed out the glacial cwm where the lake had formed centuries ago."
Welsh, mid-19th century
You can count on Welsh-derived words to provide terms with consonants in interesting strings and no pronunciation like standard English. "Cwm," meaning "a steep-walled basin found on the side of a mountain," is pronounced ...
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