Meaning & use
cwm
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A steep-walled, bowl-shaped hollow carved into a mountainside by glacial erosion, typically found at the head of a valley.
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Hikers rested in the cwm before tackling the final ridge to the summit.
The glacier had long since retreated, leaving a deep cwm scoured into the rock.
A note on using this word
Borrowed from Welsh, where it simply means "valley"; it is unusual among English words for containing no vowel other than "w," which functions as a vowel here.
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cirquecorrie
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