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What is a cirque?

What is a cirque? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (geology) A curved depression in a mountainside with steep walls, forming the end of a valley.
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L'Étrange cirque de Monsieur EdgarAt the crack of dawn, under the wan gaze of the moon and a sprinkling of stars, Monsieur Edgar brings his circus to town through back alleys.
The cirque, therefore, is at once the product of the glacier and its generator and conserver.
But no matter where her career has taken her, or how big the cirque has become, Vial keeps coming back.
Twenty-eight years ago, Veronique Vial was asked to photograph cirque du Soleil.
An enormous cirque plunged 300 feet down to a frozen aquamarine lake and then sloped up and away to a sawtoothed ridge.
As the lava walls of the cirque crumble they expel a constant dribble onto the dirty snow below.

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