cirque

cirque englannista suomeksi

1. onsilo, kattilalaakso

0. Substantiivi

1. onsilo

cirque englanniksi

1. A Roman circus.

2. (quote-book)|edition=6th|location=London|publisher=Printed for (w),(nb...)|year=1722|volume=1|section=book 2 (From the Ascension of Our Blessed Saviour, to the Death of St. John, the Last Surviving Apostle)|page=347|pageurl=https://archive.org/stream/generalecclesias00echpage/347/mode/1up|oclc=507904658|passage=''Nero'' exhibited theſe Spectacles in his own Gardens, impiouſly joining to them the Diverſions of the Cirque, and appearing himſelf publicly in the Habit of a Charioteer, ſitting in his Chariot(..).

3. A curved depression or natural amphitheatre, especially one in a mountainside at the end of a valley.

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5. Something in the shape of a circle or ring.

6. (quote-book), 4, (w), (w); Salisbury, Wiltshire: W. B. Brodie and Co.|year=1846|pages=153–154|pageurl=https://archive.org/stream/druidicaltemples00dukepage/154/mode/1up|oclc=457310214|passage=Saturn has supplied to the Greeks and Romans the source of a beautiful personification; they have represented him as Time, (..) thus with his scythe is he considered to cut down in endless succession every ripened race of man; and as the serpent is annually renewed by the cast of its skin, so is every falling race of man held to be renewed by a young and succeeding progeny; from hence arose the fiction, that Saturn devoured his own children, and hence also is the continuous cirque of imposts at Stonehenge an apt representation of this well imagined emblem.

7. (quote-book), the Knickerbocker Press|year=1899|page=36|pageurl=https://archive.org/stream/christpoeticalst00auripage/36/mode/1up|oclc=13465562|passage=There our camp / Lay pitched that day beneath the sun's wide glare, / Amid the omnipresent desert wastes, / And few men stirred abroad. (..) And the tents / Sagged lifeless all around their dusky cirque, / Whose every rope shone burnished in the glare, / And every tent-pin.

8. circus

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10. a circular arena, such as in the ancient Roman Empire

11. 1875 (year of first performance), ''Song|Chanson du Toréador'' from ''Carmen'' by Bizet|Bizet

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12. a mess, a disorder

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