| Front | cirque /suhrk/ |
|---|---|
| Back | noun 1. A bowl-shaped semicircular mountain basin carved by glacial erosion. Also called cwm. 2. A ring; a circle. Via French from Latin circus (circle). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sker- (to turn or bend) which is also the source of other words such as ranch, rank, shrink, circle, crisp, search, ring, curb, ridge, curve, and circa.] "In the Snowies, cirques only occur on sheltered mountain faces where the snow first fell and slowly compacted into glacial ice." - Peter Veness; Australia: Peak-Time Perfection Just Across the Ditch; The New Zealand Herald (Auckland); Feb 22, 2009. |
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