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Cirque has already branched out into TV, film, music recording and merchandise.
From the economist.com
The landscape stretched across dozens of ice-capped peaks and deep cirque valleys.
From the travel.nytimes.com
Cirque has also sparked interest in vaudeville, acrobatics and street performance.
From the time.com
Cirque du Soleil, the closest theatrical parallel to it, hadn't been invented yet.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Cirque de la Symphonie acrobats will perform alongside the RPO Friday and Saturday.
From the democratandchronicle.com
Sediment generated by the small cirque glacier is carried to the lake by meltwater.
From the sciencedaily.com
Cirque du Soleil has seven resident shows in Las Vegas and two more imminent.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Wait, the stadiums big screens are now displaying a cirque du soliel graphic.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Cirque has a responsibility, at least in my view, to provide adequate guest parking.
From the sacbee.com
- A steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake
- A cirque (French for "circus") or corrie (from Scottish Gaelic coire meaning a "kettle") is an amphitheatre-like valley head, formed at the head of a valley glacier by erosion. ...
- Cirque is an album by ambient musician Biosphere, which was released in 2000.
- A curved depression in a mountainside with steep walls, forming the end of a valley; cwm
- (Cirques) Sometimes the weight of a glacier makes a part of the bedrock beneath it collapse, forming a basin known as a cirque. If the glacier melts, the cirque might become a lake.
- A steep-walled horseshoe-shaped recess high on a mountain that is formed by glacial erosion.
- Armchair-shaped hollow in the mountainside formed by glacial erosion and freeze-thaw weathering. This is where the valley glacier begins.
- A deep, steep-walled mountain basin or amphitheater carved out of the mountain by an alpine glacier. Similar to a bowl but generally steeper.
- Horseshoe-shaped basin at head of glacial valley, enclosed by high head and side walls, with low lip and smooth basin floor; often containing small lakes or glaciers today in alpine settings.
