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Cirque   Listen
noun
Cirque  n.  
1.
A circle; a circus; a circular erection or arrangement of objects. "A dismal cirque Of Druid stones upon a forlorn moor."
2.
A kind of circular valley in the side of a mountain, walled around by precipices of great height.





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"Cirque" Quotes from Famous Books



... strayed violet; The rathe spring-beauty scattered wide like snow; The opal in a cirque of diamonds set; Rare silken gowns that ...
— The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance • Paul Elmer More
... often played upon his violin, or sang to his guitar. He is credited with having set some verses to music, at this time; among them the popular "Au Clair de la Lune," which the numberless readers of "Trilby" will remember was sung by La Svengali, on that famous night at the Cirque des Bashibazoucks. Some couplets reflecting on his mistress were sent to the young musician, and, composing a pretty air to the words, he sang them to the frequenters of the kitchen. This disrespectful act reached the ears of the duchess, who thereupon expelled ...
— Among the Great Masters of Music - Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians • Walter Rowlands
... out of a picture by Watteau; at the Gymnase "Clarisse Harlowe," with a death-scene of Rose Cheri which comes back to me, through the distance of time, as the prettiest piece of pure and gentle stage-pathos in my memory; at the Porte St. Martin "Lucretia Borgia" by Hugo; at the Cirque, scenes of the great revolution, and all the battles of Napoleon; at the Comic Opera, "Gibby"; and at the Palais Royal the usual new-year's piece, in which Alexandre Dumas was shown in his study beside a pile of quarto volumes five ...
— The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete • John Forster
... on their heads with their feet in the air. At the Hippodrome in Paris some years since there was a man who remained in this position seven minutes and ate a meal during the interval. There were two clowns at the Cirque Franconi who duplicated this feat, and the program called their dinner "Un dejouner en tete-a-tete." Some other persons perform wonderful feats of a similar nature on an oscillating trapeze, and many similar ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould


Words linked to "Cirque" :   basin, corrie, cwm


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