Cirque and Valley

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Cirque noun - Something with a perfectly round circumference.

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Valley and cirque are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Valley" instead a noun "Cirque".

Valley noun - An area of lowland between hills or mountains.

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Cirque and valley are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Cirque" with "Valley", this nouns are similar.

It's made its way into English as 'combe' (steep, narrow valleys with no waterways) and as the word 'cwm' to describe a cirque (a rounded glacial valley that the Scots call a 'corrie').

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