cirque

onsilo, kattilalaakso puhekieltä A curved depression in a mountainside with steep walls, forming the end of a valley.
1982, (w), 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.

le cirque est plein de sang

: The arena is full of blood

Cest quoi ce cirque !''