Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Cirque

Cirque , noun

[French, from Latin circus.]

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