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Cinque vs Cirque - What's the difference?

cinque | cirque |

As an adjective cinque

is fifth.

As a noun cirque is

(geology) a curved depression in a mountainside with steep walls, forming the end of a valley.

cinque

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The number five as seen on a die or on a card.
  • * 1813 , John Mason Good, Olinthus Gregory, Newton Bosworth, Pantologia
    • The first best throw upon the dice is esteemed aces, as it stops the six-point in the outer table, and secures the cinque in your own, whereby your adversary's two men upon your ace-point cannot get out with either quatre, cinque, or six.

    Related terms

    * cinquefoil * Cinque Ports

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    cirque

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geology) A curved depression in a mountainside with steep walls, forming the end of a valley.
  • * 1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 344:
    • Of course it's going to be bad whever the clouds let loose, but up here pussyfooting along the perimeter of toothy cirques and dead drops of anywhere from eighty to three hundred feet, it would be a disaster.

    Synonyms

    * corrie * cwm

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